LIBRARY 

OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 


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Received- 
Accession  No. 


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,  189 
No. 


of  jfttc^igan 

1871—1896 


THE 


QUARTER-CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


OF   THE 


PRESIDENCY 


OF 


JAMES  BURRILL  ANGELL,  LL.D. 


JUNE  24,  1896 


ANN  ARBOR 

PUBLISHED   BY  THE   UNIVERSITY 
1896 


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2%e  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Printed  by  H.  O.  Houghton  &  Co. 


EDITOKIAL  COMMITTEE. 


ISAAC   N.  DEMMON. 
WILLIAM  H.  PETTEE. 
FLOYD  R.  MECHEM. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

INTRODUCTION 1 

ADDRESSES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL 5-32 

Regent  Cocker's  Address           .         ....        .         .        .  5 

Address  of  the  University  Senate 8 

Resolutions  of  the  State  Teachers'  Association  ....  13 

Response  of  President  Angell       .......  14 

Professor  Gayley's  Ode     ........  18 

Dean  Murray's  Address 21 

Mr.  Justin  Winsor's  Address     .......  24 

Professor  Clark's  Address             24 

President  Draper's  Address 26 

Commissioner  Harris's  Address 30 

RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER 33-56 

President  Angell's  Response .33 

Ex-Regent  Willard's  Response 36 

Mr.  Rowland  Hazard's  Response 42 

Ex-Regent  Cutcheon's  Response 43 

Mrs.  Turner's  Response        ........  45 

President  Rogers's  Response     .......  47 

President  Sperry's  Response 50 

President  Harper's  Response 52 

Mr.  Dickinson's  Response 54 

Professor  Wright's  Response     .......  55 

Mr.  R.  M.  Wright's  Response 55 

CONGRATULATORY  LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS         ....  57-84 

From  President  Loudon,  University  of  Toronto       .        .         .        .57 

Chancellor  Smith,  McGill  University          ....  57 

President  Hyde,  Bowdoin  College 57 

President  Buckham,  University  of  Vermont      ...  58 

President  Carter,  Williams  College 58 

President  Capen,  Tufts  College 59 

President  Seelye,  Smith  College 59 

President  Hall,  Clark  University 59 


vi  CONTENTS. 

From  President  Walker,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology    .  59 

President  Mendenhall,  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute     .  60 
President  Andrews,  Brown  University           .         .         .         .60 

President  Dwight,  Yale  University 61 

President  Low,  Columbia  University 61 

President  MacCracken,  University  of  the  City  of  New  York  62 

President  Taylor,  Vassar  College  ......  62 

President  Patton,  Princeton  University      ....  62 

President  Scott,  Rutgers  College 63 

Provost  Harrison,  University  of  Pennsylvania    ...  64 
President  and  Faculty  of  Lafayette  College  .        .         .         .64 

President  Drown,  The  Lehigh  University  ....  64 

President  Gilman,  The  Johns  Hopkins  University          .         .  65 

President  Whitman,  The  Columbian  University         .        .  65 

President  and  Faculty  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina  .  66 

President  Canfield,  Ohio  State  University          ...  66 

President  Schapman,  Detroit  College 66 

President  Kollen,  Hope  College 67 

President  Jesse,  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri      .         .  67 

Chancellor  Chaplin,  Washington  University       ...  67 

President  Snow,  University  of  Kansas 68 

President  Baker,  University  of  Colorado  ....  68 
President  Kellogg,  University  of  California  .         .        .         .69 

Governor  Rich  .         ....         ....  69 

Ex-Regent  Burt 69 

Ex-Regent  Grosvenor 70 

Ex-Regent  Joy 71 

Ex-Regent  Willett 71 

Ex-Governor  Alger        . 72 

Ex-Senator  Palmer 72 

Ex-Minister  Lothrop 73 

Judge  Swan       .........  73 

Minister  Uhl 74 

Bishop  Davies 74 

Bishop  Gillespie     .........  74 

Bishop  Ninde 74 

Rev.  Marcus  A.  Brownson           ......  74 

Rev.  Rufus  W.  Clark 75 

Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe          .         .         .        .         .        .         -75 

Ex-Prof  essor  White 76 

Ex-Professor  Tyler -76 

Ex-Professor  Arndt 79 

Ex-Professor  Gerrish 79 

Superintendent  Duffield 79 


CONTENTS.  vii 

From  Mr.  Charles  W.  Dabney 80 

Professor  Hart  . 80 

Professor  Strong 80 

Professor  Hoi  den 81 

Messrs.  Campbell,  Hussey,  and  Colton  .         .         .         .         .81 

Mr.  Edward  P.  Allen 81 

Professor  Bigelow 82 

Mr.  B.F.  Bower 82 

Professor  Brown    .........     82 

Mr.  Lawrence  C.  Hull        .......         83 

Dr.  Henry  M.  Kurd      ........     83 

Professor  Senier 84 

Professor  Woodward 84 

BOARD  OF  REGENTS         . 85 

UNIVERSITY  SENATE 85-87 

GUESTS  AT  THE  DINNER  .  88-92 


INTRODUCTION. 


ON  the  21st  of  February,  1895,  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  took  the  first  official  action  in  connection 
with  the  celebration  of  President  AngelPs  quarter-centennial  of 
service  as  President  of  the  University,  by  adopting  a  resolution,  sub- 
mitted by  Regent  Cocker,  in  terms  as  follows :  — 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  members  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  be  appointed  to  confer  with  a  committee  of  the  University 
Senate  to  take  under  consideration  the  fact  that  next  year  is  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Dr.  Angell  to  the  pres- 
idency of  the  University ;  and  that  such  committee  consist  of  Regents 
Barbour,  Kiefer,  and  Fletcher. 

The  Senate  committee  of  conference  was  appointed  in  the  month 
of  May  following.  It  consisted  of  the  deans  of  the  several  depart- 
ments of  the  University,  with  Professor  D'Ooge,  Dean  of  the  De- 
partment of  Literature,  Science,  and  the  Arts,  as  chairman.  This 
committee  was  also  empowered  to  act  for  the  Senate  in  arranging 
the  details  of  the  celebration,  and  was  given  authority  to  appoint 
sub-committees  for  special  duties. 

The  sub-committees  appointed  were  as  follows :  — 

Committee  on  Address  to  the  President.  —  Professors  D'Ooge, 
Walter,  and  Hutchins. 

Committee  on  Invitations.  —  Regents  Barbour  and  Cocker,  and 
Professors  Prescott,  Vaughan,  Adams,  Hudson,  and  W.  B.  Hinsdale. 

Committee  on  Programme.  —  Professors  Nancrede,  Carhart,  and 
Stanley. 

Committee  on  Entertainment,  Decorations,  and  Ushers.  —  Pro- 
fessors Carrow,  Greene,  Denison,  Beman,  and  Hoff,  and  Treasurer 
Soule. 

Committee  on  Publication.  —  Professors  Demmon,  Pettee,  and 
Mechem. 

Special  invitations  were  sent  in  the  name  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
and  the  University  Senate  to  presidents  of  universities  and  colleges, 


2          PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

to  representatives  of  alumni  associations,  to  former  members  of  the 
Board  of  Regents  and  the  University  Senate,  and  to  a  large  number 
of  persons  interested  in  higher  education  in  Michigan  and  throughout 
the  country.  A  general  invitation  was  also  extended  through  the 
public  press  to  all  alumni  and  friends  of  the  University. 

The  celebration  was  held  on  Wednesday,  June  24,  1896,  the  day 
before  the  Annual  Commencement.  In  the  forenoon  the  public 
exercises  in  University  Hall  consisted  of  addresses,  greetings  from 
other  institutions,  a  Commemorative  Ode  contributed  by  Professor 
Charles  Mills  Gayley,  and  music  specially  written  for  the  occasion 
by  Professor  Stanley.  Regent  Butterfield  acted  as  presiding  officer, 
and  felicitously  introduced  the  several  speakers  in  pursuance  of  the 
programme  here  given. 

PROGRAMME. 

CHORUS  TRIUMPHALIS. 

March-Fantasia  with  Chorus. 

Professor  Albert  A.  Stanley. 

PRAYER. 

Rev.  Joseph  M.  Gelston,  Class  of  1869. 

ADDRESS  ON  BEHALF  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  REGENTS. 

Regent  William  J.  Cocker,  Class  of  1869. 

ADDRESS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  SENATE. 

Presented  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Senate  Committee, 

Professor  Martin  L.  D'Ooge,  Class  of  1862. 

RESOLUTIONS  OF  THE  STATE  TEACHERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

Presented  by  Professor  Florus  A.  Barbour,  Class  of  1878. 

RESPONSE  OF  PRESIDENT  ANGELL. 

COMMEMORATIVE  ODE. 

Written  by  Professor  Charles  Mills  Gayley,  Class  of  1878, 

now  of  the  University  of  California. 
Music  Composed  by  Professor  Stanley. 

GREETINGS  FROM  BROWN  AND  PRINCETON  UNIVERSITIES. 

Rev.  James  O.  Murray,  Dean  of  Princeton  University. 

GREETINGS  FROM  HARVARD  UNIVERSITY. 

Justin  Wmsor,  Librarian  of  Harvard  University. 


INTRODUCTION.  3 

GREETINGS  FROM  YALE  UNIVERSITY. 

Professor  John  E.  Clark,  Class  of  1856, 

now  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

GREETINGS  FROM  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITIES. 

President  Andrew  S.  Draper,  of  the  University  of  Illinois. 

GREETINGS  FROM  THE  NATIONAL  BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION. 

William  T.  Harris,  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Education. 

CHORUS.     "  The  Strain  Upraise." 

Professor  Stanley  and  Members  of  the  Choral  Union. 

In  the  afternoon  a  dinner  was  served  in  the  Waterman  Gymna- 
sium, which  was  attended  by  the  invited  guests,  and  by  about  four 
hundred  other  ladies  and  gentlemen,  mostly  alumni  of  the  Univer- 
sity. Professor  D'Ooge  presided,  and  introduced  the  persons  selected 
to  respond  to  toasts.  He  also  read  a  number  of  congratulatory  let- 
ters and  telegrams. 

The  toasts  and  the  speakers  were  as  follows :  — 

OUR  GUEST.  President  Angell. 

THE  BOARD  OF  REGENTS  THAT  CALLED  PRESIDENT  ANGELL. 

Ex-Regent  George  Willard. 

AULD  LANG  SYNE. 

Rowland  Hazard,  Peace  Dale,  R.  I. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  AND  THE  ALUMNI. 

Byron  M.  Cutcheon,  Class  of  1861. 

WOMEN  IN  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

Mrs.  Madelon  Stockwell  Turner,  Class  of  1872. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  AND  HIGHER  EDUCATION  IN  THE  NORTHWEST. 

President  Henry  Wade  Rogers,  Class  of  1874. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  AND  THE  COLLEGES  OF  MICHIGAN. 

President  Willard  G.  Sperry,  of  Olivet  College. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO. 

President  William  R.  Harper. 

THE  PRESIDENT  ANGELL  MEMORIAL. 

Don  M.  Dickinson,  Law  Class  of  1867. 


4          PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
OBERLIN  COLLEGE.  Professor  George  F.  Wright. 

THE  CLASS  OF  1871.  Mr.  Robert  M.  Wright. 

His  Excellency  Governor  John  T.  Rich  was  expected  to  be  pres- 
ent and  to  respond  to  the  toast,  The  University  and  the  State,  but  he 
was  unavoidably  detained.  He  sent  a  congratulatory  letter  which 
was  read  at  the  dinner. 


THE   ADDRESSES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL. 


REGENT   COCKER'S   ADDRESS. 

WHILE  the  University  is  greatly  indebted  to  the  State  for 
its  generous  aid  and  support,  the  State  is  indebted  to  the  Uni- 
versity for  its  direct  and  wholesome  influence  on  the  educa- 
tional system  of  the  State,  and  for  the  able  men  it  has  trained 
to  promote  the  varied  interests  of  the  commonwealth  and  to 
honor  its  name  in  State  and  national  affairs.  It  is,  therefore, 
fitting  on  this  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Angell's  in- 
auguration as  president,  that  grateful  acknowledgment  should 
be  made  in  behalf  of  the  State  of  its  indebtedness  to  the  dis- 
tinguished teacher  who  for  so  many  years  has  devoted  himself 
to  its  educational  interests. 

It  is  greatly  to  the  credit  of  the  early  settlers  of  Michigan 
that  they  took  care  that  "  good  learning  should  not  perish 
from  among  us."  They  were  brave  enough  to  face  every  dan- 
ger and  wise  enough  to  found  a  university.  While  Michigan 
was  still  a  Territory,  and  its  population  numbered  only  six  or 
seven  thousand  persons,  an  act  was  passed  creating  a  uni- 
versity. Our  first  lawgivers  were  not  willing  that  knowledge 
should  be  dependent  on  the  chance  charity  of  generous  men 
of  wealth.  They  established  for  all  time,  as  far  as  this  State 
is  concerned,  the  great  principle  that  "  the  education  of  the 
people  is  a  public  duty,"  and  that  the  appropriation  of  public 
money  for  this  end  is  a  legitimate  public  expenditure.  They 
did  not  propose  that  learning  should  be  buried  in  the  graves 
of  their  forefathers. 

The  relation  between  the  State  and  the  University  is  so 
close,  and  the  influence  of  the  University  on  the  general  wel- 
fare of  the  State  is  so  great,  that  to  shape  and  give  proper 


6          PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

direction  to  the  work  of  the  University  is  a  grave  responsi- 
bility. Few  can  appreciate  the  difficulties  that  the  President 
of  a  State  University  has  to  meet.  There  are  so  many  and  so 
conflicting  views  as  to  the  relation  of  the  State  to  higher  edu- 
cation, so  many  changes  in  the  governing  board,  so  many  local 
prejudices  to  satisfy,  and  so  much  uncertainty  regarding  State 
appropriations,  that  an  institution  like  our  own  encounters 
greater  dangers  and  requires  greater  wisdom  in  administration 
than  do  other  institutions  of  learning  whose  policy  is  largely 
fixed  by  tradition,  and  whose  interests  are  conserved  by  a  rich 
and  powerful  body  of  alumni.  To  place  the  University  in  the 
front  rank  of  the  great  schools  of  learning  with  their  rich  en- 
dowments, to  make  the  State  known  and  respected  abroad 
through  its  University,  and  in  spite  of  opposing  influences  to 
make  it  the  crowning  glory  of  the  State,  require  the  highest 
wisdom  and  the  rarest  skill.  All  friends  of  the  University 
gratefully  recognize  the  indebtedness  of  this  institution  of 
learning  to  the  distinguished  scholar  and  teacher  who  now 
presides  so  ably  over  its  interests. 

Not  alone  as  a  college  president  has  Dr.  Angell  won  dis- 
tinction. He  is  a  recognized  authority  on  international  law, 
and  his  writings  and  public  addresses  on  the  important  ques- 
tions of  the  hour  have  justly  commanded  general  attention. 
The  national  government,  recognizing  his  exceptional  fitness, 
sent  him  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  China  to  negotiate 
a  revision  of  an  important  treaty,  and  twice  he  has  been 
selected  by  the  government  of  the  United  States  to  serve  on 
important  commissions.  Whether  as  the  representative  of 
the  University  or  of  the  State  or  of  the  national  government, 
he  has  worthily  performed  the  duties  intrusted  to  his  care. 
The  University  rejoices  in  his  well-earned  distinctions,  and 
the  State  is  justly  proud  of  his  achievements. 

Some  one  has  said  that  "  the  worth  of  a  college,  whether 
eastern  or  western,  of  the  Old  World  or  the  New,  consists  not 
in  its  history  or  its  material  equipment,  but  in  the  men  who 
compose  its  teaching  force."  This  is  especially  true  of  this 
University.  Its  buildings  are  unpretentious,  its  endowments 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY   HALL.  7 

meagre,  its  gifts  few  in  number,  and  its  life  free  from  impos- 
ing ceremonies  or  impressive  distinctions.  From  humble  be- 
ginnings, and  without  the  associations  of  a  venerable  past,  it 
has  rapidly  grown  and  developed.  Men  of  broad  views  and 
ripe  scholarship  have  served  in  its  faculties  and  given  breadth 
and  character  to  learning.  The  University  has  been  richly 
endowed  with  great  teachers,  if  not  with  ample  revenues.  Its 
presidents  have  been  gifted  and  scholarly  men  who,  with  rare 
skill,  have  shaped  its  policy.  During  the  twenty-five  years  of 
Dr.  Angell's  administration  the  University  has  grown  wonder- 
fully in  the  number  of  its  students  and  in  the  breadth  and 
character  of  its  work.  While  it  has  carefully  preserved  what 
is  of  value  in  the  methods  and  traditions  of  the  older  schools 
of  learning,  it  has  kept  pace  with  the  pressing  demands  of 
modern  life.  The  fact  has  been  duly  recognized  that  a  sys- 
tematic and  thorough  training  in  the  practical  problems  of  the 
times  in  which  we  live  is  the  prime  function  of  a  university. 
The  idea  has  been  rapidly  gaining  ground  that  the  universities 
throughout  the  land  should  be  the  great  centres  for  the  solu- 
tion of  the  increasing  number  of  economic  questions  that  are 
crowding  upon  the  attention  of  the  people.  Unless  proper 
direction  is  given  to  the  discussion  of  these  perplexing  ques- 
tions, there  is  danger  of  rash  and  hasty  conclusions  that  may 
involve  the  country  in  needless  embarrassments  or  in  hopeless 
confusion.  While  the  study  of  the  classics  will  always  be 
sought  for  special  lines  of  work,  and  for  the  broad  and  gener- 
ous culture  which  they  bring,  it  is  becoming  more  and  more 
apparent  that  the  student  must  also  be  made  familiar  with 
those  practical  problems  that  enter  into  the  general  life  and 
future  welfare  of  the  nation.  Modern  research  has  revealed 
so  many  new  and  unexpected  sources  of  knowledge,  and  sug- 
gested so  many  different  lines  of  investigation,  that  the  char- 
acter and  whole  plan  of  college  training  has  been  undergoing 
a  change.  President  Eliot,  in  a  recent  address,  eloquently 
said  that  universities  are  no  longer  "  merely  students  of  the 
past,  meditative  observers  of  the  present,  or  critics,  at  a  safe 
distance,  of  the  actual  struggles  and  strifes  of  the  working 


8          PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

world;  they  are  active  participants  in  all  the  fundamental, 
progressive  work  of  modern  society." 

But  it  is  not  for  me  to  describe  the  changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  the  courses  of  study,  or  to  enumerate  the  additions 
that  have  been  made  to  the  departments  of  the  University, 
during  the  administration  of  Dr.  Angell.  His  associates  in 
the  University  Senate  will  fittingly  refer  to  these. 

To  me,  Dr.  Angell,  has  been  given  the  pleasant  duty  of 
offering  the  congratulations  of  the  Board  of  Regents  to  you, 
its  presiding  officer,  and  of  bearing  willing  testimony  to  the 
respect  and  esteem  in  which  you  are  held  by  the  several  mem- 
bers of  the  Board.  Of  your  loyal  affection  for  the  University 
and  of  your  zeal  in  promoting  its  varied  interests,  we  have  had 
repeated  and  abundant  proofs.  To  you  the  University  is 
largely  indebted  for  its  present  efficiency,  and  for  the  honor- 
able position  it  now  maintains  among  the  great  schools  of 
learning.  I  know  of  no  greater  distinction  than  wisely  to 
have  shaped  the  destinies  of  a  young  and  vigorous  institution 
of  learning,  and  of  no  greater  honor  than  worthily  to  have 
earned  the  confidence  of  a  great  body  of  students.  I  can  wish 
nothing  better  for  the  University  than  that  you,  its  honored 
president,  may  long  be  spared  to  direct  its  affairs  and  to 
honor  the  State  with  your  public  services. 

ADDRESS   OF  THE  UNIVERSITY   SENATE. 

Mr.  President,  —  The  Senate  of  the  University  brings  to 
you  on  this  auspicious  day,  which  commemorates  the  comple- 
tion of  your  quarter-centennial  of  service,  its  tribute  of  grate- 
ful recognition  and  personal  esteem. 

We  congratulate  you  and  the  University  on  the  brilliant 
record  of  the  past,  and  express  to  you  our  heartiest  and  best 
wishes  for  the  future.  As  we  turn  back  to  the  day  of  your 
inauguration,  we  recall  with  deep  emotion  the  glowing  words 
of  welcome  spoken  to  you  by  Dr.  Frieze  when  you  were  in- 
ducted into  the  presidency.  "  To  this  work  of  high  promise," 
said  he,  "we  have  called  you;  leader  in  this  grand  educational 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  9 

enterprise  we  have  made  you.  We  sought  one  to  take  the 
helm  who  possessed  at  once  the  vigor  and  enthusiasm  of  youth 
and  the  calm  prudence  and  patient  waiting  of  riper  years. 
We  sought  one  of  kindly  heart  and  resolute  will;  of  disci- 
plined mind  and  cultured  taste ;  equally  at  home  in  the  seclu- 
sion of  the  study  and  in  the  public  assembly ;  familiar  with 
the  institutions  of  foreign  lands  as  well  as  our  own ;  holding 
loyally  to  all  that  is  good  in  the  past,  yet  generously  accepting 
all  that  is  good  in  the  present ;  and  crowning  all  these  gifts 
and  attainments  with  the  faith  and  the  life  of  an  earnest  Chris- 
tian. .  .  .  We  pledge  you  our  fraternal  sympathy,  our  devoted 
friendship,  and  our  unwavering  support." 

Looking  back  over  the  years  that  have  since  intervened,  we 
mark  these  words  as  a  prophecy  of  what  we  believe  has  been 
proved  true,  and  we  rejoice  to-day  at  the  fulfillment  of  these 
bright  hopes. 

You  came  to  the  University  at  a  critical  time,  when  she 
stood  at  the  parting  of  the  ways.  The  days  of  her  infancy 
were  ended.  The  plans  of  her  great  founder,  President  Tap- 
pan,  were  waiting  for  more  complete  development.  President 
Haven  and  President  Frieze  had  guarded  well  the  traditions 
already  established,  and  sought  to  incorporate  new  ideas  with 
her  life.  But  the  true  university  ideal  was  still  but  little 
more  than  an  ideal,  toward  the  realization  of  which  we  have 
been  working  all  these  years  under  your  wise  and  inspiring 
leadership. 

During  this  period  of  twenty-five  years,  the  growth  of  the 
University  has  been  truly  remarkable.  Its  resources  have  been 
trebled,  its  students  have  increased  from  twelve  hundred  to 
three  thousand,  its  staff  of  instruction  has  grown  more  than 
four  times  as  large,  while  the  scope  of  its  work  has  been  ex- 
tended by  the  addition  of  four  new  departments,  the  Schools 
of  Dentistry,  of  Pharmacy,  of  Homoeopathy,  and  of  Engineer- 
ing. Within  the  department  of  Literature,  Science,  and  the 
Arts  have  been  created  several  important  chairs,  while  nu- 
merous facilities  in  the  way  of  laboratories  and  seminaries  and 
lectureships  and  apparatus  have  given  added  strength  and 


10       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

value  to  all  courses  of  instruction.  But  as  you  have  often 
taken  occasion  to  remark,  Mr.  President,  bigness  is  not  great- 
ness, and  we  find  the  most  satisfactory  and  convincing  proofs 
of  the  success  of  your  administration  in  those  less  palpable 
but  more  valuable  improvements  and  advances  that  are  more 
spiritual  than  material,  and  that  constitute  most  clearly  the 
essential  elements  of  a  true  university.  As  such  elements  we 
would  name,  first,  the  closer  articulation  of  the  University 
with  the  organic  system  of  State  Education,  of  which  it  is  the 
head.  Under  your  fostering  care,  this  relation,  which  was  in- 
stituted just  before  you  came  to  us,  has  been  made  more  vital, 
and  has  become  increasingly  fruitful  of  good  both  to  secondary 
education  and  to  the  University. 

Another  element  of  University  progress  is  the  development 
of  the  elective  system,  and  the  opportunity  it  affords  for 
advanced  work  and  scientific  investigation.  Of  the  beneficial 
results  of  this  system,  in  the  way  of  promoting  scholarship, 
and  of  giving  to  the  life  of  the  University  a  more  mature  and 
earnest  spirit,  there  can  be  no  doubt. 

This  catholicity  of  purpose,  this  breaking  down  of  the  tra- 
ditional class  distinctions,  and  this  wide  Lehrfreiheit  have  not 
been  purchased  at  the  price  of  solidity  and  discipline ;  and  this 
happy  result  we  owe  in  no  small  degree  to  your  wise  conserva- 
tism and  broad  outlook  over  the  whole  field  of  education. 
Closely  related  to  this  movement  for  wider  choice  of  studies 
and  greater  independence  of  a  routine  curriculum  is  the  effort 
to  foster  graduate  study,  and  to  build  up  that  higher  side  of 
the  University  that  in  the  end  must  measure  its  real  character 
and  influence. 

Twenty-five  years  ago  no  graduate  work,  properly  so-called, 
was  attempted.  At  present  we  have  graduate  courses  of  study 
in  all  departments  of  the  University.  To  no  one  subject  have 
your  reports  called  more  urgent  attention  than  to  the  impor- 
tance of  building  up  this  the  most  distinctive  part  of  a  true 
university. 

Closely  allied  to  this  forward  movement  is  the  constant  ad- 
vance made  by  our  Professional  Schools  in  their  methods  and 


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standards  of  instruction.  In  looking  over  the  record  of  these 
past  years,  the  conviction  is  gained  that  the  University  has  in 
no  other  direction  made  greater  strides  than  in  this.  Twenty- 
five  years  ago  there  was  no  examination  for  admission  to  any 
one  of  our  professional  schools ;  to-day,  preliminary  training 
that  covers  the  equivalent  of  a  good  High  School  course  is 
required  by  all  our  professional  departments. 

Then,  the  term  of  both  the  Law  and  the  Medical  Schools 
was  six  months  for  two  years,  and  the  instruction  was  given 
chiefly  by  lectures.  Now,  our  Medical  Schools  require  a  regis- 
tration of  four  terms  of  nine  months  each,  and  set  a  stand- 
ard for  graduation  that  is  as  high  as  that  of  any  medical 
school  in  this  country,  while  the  Law  School  has  length- 
ened its  course  to  three  years  of  nine  months  each,  and  has 
signally  raised  its  standard  of  graduation.  In  all  these  de- 
partments, the  old  style  of  instruction  has  been  materially 
modified  or  superseded  by  modern  methods,  in  which  labora- 
tory practice  and  scientific  research  hold  the  most  prominent 
place. 

The  year  before  your  induction  into  the  presidency  the 
doors  of  the  University  were  first  thrown  open  to  the  admission 
of  women.  What  was  for  a  time  a  bold  experiment  has  be- 
come an  established  success,  and  the  hundreds  of  young  women 
who  have  worthily  enjoyed  the  full  privileges  and  advantages 
of  the  University  on  absolutely  equal  terms  with  young  men, 
are  glad  to  bring  you  their  tribute  of  gratitude  for  your  just 
and  wise  administration,  by  which  the  interests  of  women  in 
this  University  have  been  made  secure. 

The  entire  life  and  spirit  of  the  University  during  this 
period  which  we  pass  in  review  have  been  marked  by  a  steady 
growth  in  good  order  and  decorum,  in  friendly  relations  be- 
tween pupils  and  teachers,  and  in  all  that  makes  for  a  whole- 
some intellectual  and  moral  atmosphere. 

That  amid  much  and  necessary  diversity  of  interest  there  has 
been  so  much  harmony  and  unity  in  our  councils  as  a  Senate, 
and  in  the  different  Faculties,  is  due  in  no  small  measure  to 
your  impartial  conduct  of  affairs,  your  broad  and  generous 


12       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

views,  your  charitable  spirit,  and  your  gracious  courtesy. 
That  the  University  has  safely  passed  through  many  crises, 
has  gained  respect  and  influence  throughout  our  State  and  the 
entire  land,  is  to  be  attributed  in  large  degree  to  your  skillful 
management,  your  experience  in  educational  work,  and  to 
your  high  character  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man. 

We  congratulate  the  University,  Mr.  President,  upon  the 
reputation  you  have  justly  earned  for  her,  a  reputation  not 
bounded  by  the  seas,  but  cherished  also  in  the  far  Orient  and 
in  the  centres  of  European  learning  as  well  as  at  home.  We 
recall  with  feelings  of  honest  pride  how  our  own  National 
Government  has  thrice  summoned  you  to  high  service  in  diplo- 
macy and  council.  We  are  glad  also  to  remember  that  in  the 
discussion  of  the  great  educational  problems  of  our  day,  your 
words  are  ever  welcomed  as  those  of  one  who  has  authority  to 
speak. 

But  most  of  all,  we  who  have  been  associated  with  you  these 
many  years  admire  and  esteem  you  for  what  you  have  been 
to  us  and  to  this  beloved  University.  The  cheerful  and  serene 
temper  in  which  you  have  borne  the  heavy  burden  of  your 
duties,  the  kind  and  gracious  manner  in  which  you  have 
helped  us  to  fulfill  our  tasks,  the  spirit  of  hopefulness  for  the 
future  of  this  institution  with  which  you  have  inspired  us,  the 
numberless  tokens  of  personal  kindness  you  have  shown  to  us 
all,  it  is  these  daily  ministrations  of  your  life  —  if  you  will 
pardon  what  Plato  would  call  too  much  downrightness  of 
speech  —  that  endear  you  to  us  all.  Our  memories  thrill  to-day 
with  sacred  recollections  of  the  past,  and  we  fancy  we  hear 
mingling  with  our  words  of  greeting  voices  from  the  silent 
land  of  those  beloved  colleagues  who  twenty-five  years  ago 
stood  here  to  bid  you  welcome  to  this  post  of  honor,  but  who 
are  with  us  now  only  in  memory  and  in  spirit,  to  join  with  us 
in  these  expressions  of  our  esteem  and  praise. 

In  closing  these  congratulations,  Mr.  President,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Senate  are  cheered  by  the  hope  that  the  same  bond 
which  has  united  us  all  these  many  years  in  common  work  and 
interest  may  be  cemented  still  more  firmly  by  future  years  of 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  13 

companionship  in  the  great  work  in  which  we  are  engaged. 
May  that  divine  Providence  that  has  blessed  you  so  abun- 
dantly in  the  past  still  attend  you  and  prolong  your  days  of 
fruitful  service  to  this  University,  to  which  so  much  of  your 
life  has  been  given.  And  may  the  blessing  of  Heaven  also  be 
vouchsafed  to  her  who  during  all  this  time  has  so  devotedly 
stood  at  your  side  to  aid  you,  and  who  by  her  deeds  of  kind- 
ness and  helpfulness  has  made  herself  the  friend  of  all  our 
University  community. 

Whatever  be  the  future  of  this  University,  your  work  on  its 
behalf  shall  be  an  abiding  possession  of  good  influence  and 
power,  and  shall  constitute  one  of  the  chief  elements  of  its 
greatness  and  renown  for  all  time. 

RESOLUTIONS  OF  THE    STATE   TEACHERS'    ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

Whereas,  This  year  completes  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
of  President  Angell's  connection  with  the  University  of 
Michigan ; 

Whereas,  During  that  time  the  growth  of  the  University 
has  been  marked  not  only  by  a  large  increase  in  the  number 
of  its  students,  but  by  the  wisdom  and  enlightenment  of  a 
most  liberal  educational  policy ; 

Whereas,  The  High  Schools  of  the  State,  and  through 
them  the  Common  Schools,  have  felt  the  inspiration  and  uplift 
of  a  close  connection  with  the  University,  hundreds  of  young 
men  and  women  of  but  moderate  means  having  thus  been  led 
to  set  their  faces  ambitiously  in  the  direction  of  University 
life  and  culture ;  and 

Whereas,  In  this  respect  no  university  in  the  country  can 
be  said  to  have  exerted  so  widespread  and  salutary  an  influ- 
ence upon  popular  education,  —  an  influence  due  in  no  small 
degree  to  the  ripe  scholar  and  able  executive  who  has  the 
management  of  the  University  in  charge ; 

fiesolved,  That  we,  the  teachers  of  Michigan,  do  hereby 
most  gratefully  express  our  appreciation  of  his  eminent  ser- 
vices to  the  cause  of  popular  education  in  our  Commonwealth  ; 


14       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Resolved,  That  while  we  congratulate  him  upon  the  distin- 
guished success  of  his  administration  in  the  past,  we  do  also 
express  the  hope  that  his  genial  presence  may  be  spared  to  the 
State  yet  many  a  year  to  carry  forward  the  interests  so  dear 
to  his  heart. 

PRESIDENT   ANGELL'S   RESPONSE. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  of  the,  University 
Senate,  and  of  the  State  Teachers'  Association,  —  I  beg  to 
return  my  sincere  thanks  to  you  for  the  kind  words  with 
which  you  greet  me  on  this  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  my 
inauguration. 

But  my  gratitude  is  mingled  with  a  sense  of  humility,  as  I 
consider  how  far,  in  my  opinion,  your  estimate  of  the  value  of 
my  services  exceeds  their  real  worth.  The  partiality  of  your 
friendship  has  ascribed  to  me  merit  far  beyond  my  deserts.  But 
the  friendship  is  most  dear  to  me,  and  this  touching  manifes- 
tation of  it  from  those  with  whom  it  has  been  my  rare  good 
fortune  to  labor  for  so  many  years  almost  obliterates  from  my 
memory  for  the  moment  my  failures  and  shortcomings  and 
disappointments,  which  have  sometimes  oppressed  me  in  my 
work.  Your  words  embolden  me  to  believe  that  those  who 
know  me  best  are  persuaded  that  however  I  may  have  fallen 
below  their  ideals  and  below  my  own,  yet  with  devotion  to 
the  interests  of  the  University  and  of  the  State,  and  with  the 
consecration  of  whatever  powers  God  has  bestowed  on  me,  I 
have  striven  to  do  my  whole  duty.  No  higher  reward  could 
I  hope  or  wish  in  return  for  my  years  of  toil,  with  all  their 
fatigues  and  anxieties,  than  the  assurance,  from  you  who  best 
of  all  men  know  the  difficulties  that  have  been  encountered 
and  the  results  that  have  been  accomplished,  that  my  work 
has  not  been  altogether  fruitless. 

But  I  should  fail  to  do  justice  at  once  to  the  truth  and  to 
my  own  feelings,  if  I  did  not  hasten  to  say  that  all  my  efforts 
would  have  been  in  vain  if  I  had  not  been  counseled  and 
assisted  by  so  true  and  faithful  men  on  the  Board  of  Regents 
and  in  the  Faculties.  The  fidelity  with  which  Regents  who 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  15 

had  large  business  interests  or  engrossing  professional  duties, 
have  given  time  and  thought  and  labor  to  the  University,  has 
been  an  indispensable  element  in  its  success.  I  know  of  no 
university  which  has  been  better  cared  for  by  its  official 
guardians.  I  am  glad  of  this  opportunity  to  thank  the  pres- 
ent members  of  the  Board  and  their  predecessors  for  their 
unvarying  kindness  and  helpfulness  to  me.  I  remember  with 
tender  interest  that  nine  who  have  served  on  the  Board  with 
me  have  died. 

What  university  has  had  a  more  choice  collection  of  men 
in  its  Faculties  during  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  than  this ! 
It  is  they  who  preeminently  have  made  the  University  what  it 
is.  In  my  service  and  companionship  with  them  is  found  one 
of  the  dearest  memories  of  my  life.  Alas  I  that  in  so  many 
cases  the  companionship  has  already  been  severed  by  death. 
Out  of  the  one  hundred  and  seventy  teachers  now  here,  only 
seven  were  here  when  I  came.  You  have  quoted  from  the 
hearty  greeting  which  my  old  teacher  and  lifelong  friend, 
Doctor  Frieze,  gave  me  on  the  day  of  my  inauguration.  How 
valuable  were  his  counsels  !  How  dear  was  his  friendship  to 
me  to  the  day  of  his  death  !  How  in  our  long  walks  we  used 
to  dream  dreams  of  the  coming  greatness  and  power  and  be- 
neficence of  this  University !  Many  of  these  dreams,  thanks  in 
large  part  to  his  labors  and  influence,  have  already  been  real- 
ized in  fact.  Besides  him  death  has  snatched  away  how  many 
noble  and  distinguished  men,  who  had  long  served  the  Uni- 
versity :  Williams,  —  good  old  Doctor  Williams,  as  we  always 
love  to  call  him,  —  Douglas,  Sager,  Cocker,  Morris,  Olney, 
Winchell,  Campbell,  Walker,  Wells,  Watson,  Palmer,  Crosby, 
Lyster,  Ford,  Dunster,  the  brothers  Cheever,  and  Elisha 
Jones,  and  last  of  all,  the  venerable  Felch.  One  has  only  to 
call  this  roll  of  illustrious  names  to  understand  why  students 
from  all  parts  of  the  Union,  and  from  the  nations  beyond  the 
seas,  have  flocked  to  these  halls.  They  have  been  drawn 
hither  to  sit  at  the  feet  of  these  great  teachers,  and  of  others 
like  them,  who,  thank  God,  are  still  spared  to  us. 

I  can  claim  no  merit  save  that  of  having  heartily  cooperated 


,16        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

with  these  learned  and  wise  instructors.  Large  as  is  our  body 
of  teachers,  we  have  habitually  followed  one  rule,  which  in  my 
opinion  has  been  of  inestimable  service,  both  in  promoting  the 
proverbial  harmony  and  friendliness  among  us,  and  in  secur- 
ing wise  legislation  and  successful  administration.  That  rule 
is,  never  to  make  any  important  innovation  on  the  vote  of  a 
bare  majority,  but  to  wait  until  we  are  substantially  agreed 
on  the  wisdom  of  a  change  before  introducing  it.  So  we  have 
wrought  together  with  one  heart  and  one  mind,  and  in  the 
enjoyment  of  the  most  delightful  social  relations. 

If  I  have  accomplished  anything  here,  it  is  mainly  because 
my  colleagues,  from  the  oldest  to  the  youngest,  have  so  heartily 
stood  by  me,  have  been  so  patient  with  my  shortcomings,  have 
so  promptly  responded  to  every  request,  nay  to  every  sugges- 
tion which  I  have  made.  Never  was  a  president  surrounded 
by  more  helpful  and  loyal  associates.  My  heart  runs  out 
with  gratitude  to  them  for  the  innumerable  acts  by  which  they 
have  lightened  my  burdens  and  made  my  tasks  a  pleasure. 

Nor  would  I  forget  to-day  how  helpful  have  been  the  rela- 
tions which  the  students  have  chosen  to  maintain  with  me. 
Several  thousand  have  come  and  gone  during  these  twenty-five 
years.  My  heart  is  bound  by  the  tenderest  ties  to  the  great 
company  of  students  whom  I  have  seen  going  from  these  halls 
year  after  year.  Nothing  gives  me  keener  joy  or  more  pride 
in  the  University  than  to  see  them  worthily  occupying  posi- 
tions of  influence  and  usefulness.  No  more  pleasant  experi- 
ence comes  to  me  than  to  receive  their  cordial  greetings 
wherever  I  go.  Their  affection  for  their  Alma  Mater  is  an 
endowment  more  precious  than  untold  treasures  of  silver  and 
gold.  Because  we  are  sure  of  their  devotion  to  her,  we  are 
full  of  hope  for  the  future. 

I  beg  to  assure  my  friends  of  the  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion that  I  appreciate  most  highly  their  words  of  welcome 
to-day.  Nothing  have  I  had  more  at  heart  during  all  these 
years  than  the  cultivation  of  the  closest  relations  between  the 
University  and  the  Schools.  Nothing  has  been  more  helpful 
to  the  University  than  the  cordiality  with  which  the  Schools 


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have  responded  to  our  approaches  to  them.  I  believe  that 
thus  the  Schools  and  the  University  have  been  able  to  render 
most  valuable  aid  to  each  other,  and  so  to  make  the  Michigan 
system  of  public  education  worthy  of  the  high  commendation 
which  it  has  so  often  elicited  from  competent  observers.  No- 
thing could  give  me  higher  satisfaction  than  to  know  that  my 
sincere  efforts  to  cooperate  with  the  teachers  in  this  valuable 
work  have  in  their  opinion  been  of  any  service. 

May  I  express  my  great  gratification  that  you  have  invited 
representatives  from  our  sister  universities  to  be  present  with 
us  to-day,  and  that  so  many  of  them  have  been  kind  enough 
to  honor  us  with  their  presence.  I  have  only  fulfilled  your 
desire  in  seeking  by  every  means  in  my  power  to  cultivate 
the  most  cordial  relations  with  other  colleges  and  universities. 
You  have  often  heard  me  announce  my  belief  that  no  good 
college  or  university  hurts  another  good  one.  It  is  only  the 
unworthy  institution  that  cherishes  envy  of  another.  We 
have  always  tried  to  learn  all  that  was  profitable  to  us  from 
every  other  university.  We  hope  that  by  some  wise  and  brave 
experiments  we  too  have  thrown  light,  which  other  institutions 
have  been  glad  to  gain,  on  certain  problems  of  higher  educa- 
tion. There  is  work  enough  for  us  all  to  do.  Great  has  been 
the  revolution  in  college  methods  and  administration  within 
my  recollection.  We  gladly  send  our  salutations  to  all  the 
sisterhood  of  colleges  and  universities,  and  express  our  ardent 
desire  to  cooperate  with  them  in  all  efforts  to  enhance  the 
value  of  the  higher  education  for  this  and  the  coming  gen- 
erations. 

And  now,  my  friends,  I  hope  it  is  not  inappropriate  for  me 
to  return  my  thanks  to  all  who  have  evinced  an  interest,  so 
unexpected  to  me,  in  the  celebration  of  this  day,  to  my  two 
friends  whose  lofty  verse  and  stately  music  are  so  happily 
married  in  the  ode  we  are  about  to  hear,  to  this  concourse  of 
my  neighbors  from  this  city,  my  beloved  home,  to  the  many 
citizens  gathered  here  from  all  parts  of  this  State,  to  the 
alumni  from  all  sections  of  the  country,  to  numerous  college 
presidents  who  have  sent  me  kindly  messages,  to  the  public 
2 


18       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

press  of  many  cities  and  towns.  I  willingly  believe  that  the 
interest  in  the  celebration  is  mainly  interest  in  the  University. 
I  greatly  prefer  that  it  should  be  so.  But  for  the  many  gra- 
cious words  and  acts  that  I  am  compelled  to  interpret  as  words 
and  acts  of  personal  kindness  to  me,  I  am  most  humbly  and 
profoundly  grateful. 

I  am  deeply  touched  by  the  delicate  but  positive  recognition 
in  the  Address  of  the  services  of  my  wife  to  the  University. 
For  her  aid  in  unnumbered  ways  through  all  the  vicissitudes 
of  these  years,  especially  in  the  social  responsibilities  which 
fall  here  upon  the  President's  house,  she  is  entitled  to  share 
with  me  to  the  full  whatever  honor  this  day  can  bring  to  me. 
In  her  name  and  in  my  own  I  beg  to  thank  you. 

In  the  course  of  nature  the  day  is  not  remote  when  some 
other  man  must  take  the  official  responsibility  which  has  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century  rested  on  me,  and  which  has  so  greatly 
increased  since  I  assumed  it.  I  pray  that  he  may  be  a  stronger 
and  wiser  man  than  I  have  been.  I  am  sure  that  the  kind 
consideration  which  Regents  and  Faculties  and  students  and 
the  public  have  shown  to  me  will  make  a  strong  and  wise  man 
more  willing  than  he  might  otherwise  be  to  accept  the  high 
and  sacred  trust.  If  such  shall  prove  to  be  the  fact,  the  cele- 
bration of  this  day  will  have  amply  justified  itself.  Mean- 
while, for  myself,  allow  me  to  make  my  closing  like  my  open- 
ing words,  —  thanks,  thanks,  my  heartiest  thanks. 

PROFESSOR  GAYLEY'S  ODE. 

i. 

The  State. 

O  State  enthroned  beside  the  triple  sea, 

Embraced,  embattled  by  his  ageless  arms, 
Accept  our  homage,  and  this  strain  that  we 
With  hearts  attuned,  in  all  humility, 
As  prelude  to  thy  seemlier  praises  offer  thee,  — 
And  grant  us  grace  to  know  thy  glory,  sing  thy  sovereign  charms  ! 

H. 


By  forests  towering  absolute, 
By  regions  subterranean,  mute, 


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Where  treasures  sleep  and  shades  obtain, 
Thy  rivers  haste  ;  by  cedared  bend,  and  lane 
Where  sumachs  hold  their  crimson  reign, 

Through  openings  where  maples  shoot, 
By  flock  and  herd  and  laboring  wain, 

Through  orchards  bourgeoning  for  fruit 

They  wind  amain,  — 
Through  reaches  yellowing  to  grain 
And  village,  field,  and  furrowed  plain, 

Till  leaping,  singing, 

They  win  at  last  some  harbor  of  the  sea  — 
Where  ships  at  anchor  swinging, 
And  thousand  belfries  ringing, 
And  court  and  market,  render  ceaselessly 
The  service  of  themselves  and  all  to  thee. 
Like  stars  that  stud  the  firmament,  O  State, 
Thy  glories,  but  not  these  thou  bidst  us  celebrate. 

m. 

O  State  enthroned  beside  the  triple  sea, 

Not  all  thy  borders'  rich  emblazonry, 

Nor  wealth,  nor  freedom  most  ennobles  thee,  — 

But  thy  Fairest  —  at  whose  knee 
We  learn  that  heavenly  learning  is  nobility. 

IV. 

The  University. 

O  Fair  — 
Mother  of  Learning  and  immortal  youth, 

My  children  call  thee  blessed,  know  thee  wise, 
Whose  smile  is  beauty,  and  whose  eyes 
Benignant  with  the  light  of  love  and  truth 

Enkindle  hearts  of  men  to  high  emprise. 
They  call  thee  blessed,  —  yea,  revere  thee,  most 
Because  thou  teachest,  uttering  not  the  boast, 

That  with  thy  sons  it  lies 
To  mould  the  ages,  make  them  less  uncouth  — 

To  point  the  people  to  the  life  above 
To  tread  the  path  of  duty  in  the  freedom  that  is  love. 

v. 

O  Fair 

In  peace,  in  peril  beautiful,  — 
They  found  thee  fairest  whom  thou  gavest  dutiful 


20       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

To  Country  and  the  Name  ; 
Thy  best  and  dearest  who  laid  down 
The  crown  of  myrtle  for  the  crown 

Of  sacrifice  and  sword  and  flame 
And  Life  that  palters  not  with  fate  or  fortune,  fear  or  fame. 

VI. 

Unsure  the  thread  of  Fate, 
Uncertain  Fortune's  wheel,  — 
Thine  the  presence  ever-living, 
Thine  the  inspiration  giving 
The  courage  of  the  Destiny  thou  dost  reveal ! 
Unsure  the  thread  of  Fate, 
Uncertain  Fortune's  wheel,  — 

But  thy  dwelling,  gracious  Mother  —  but  thy  Temple  of  the  State 
Enshrines  the  Lamp,  the  living  Fire, 
The  Book  of  life  and  art  and  soul's  desire, 

Ensures  the  Commonweal  — 
And  quickens  unto  service  the  souls  whom  thou  dost  seal. 

VII. 

The  President. 

Few  the  souls  afire  with  ardor  of  the  living  fire  itself, 
Few  the  lives  that  stake  no  portion  of  eternity  for  pelf, 
Few  the  hearts  that  petty  impulse,  gusts  of  passion  do  not  move, 
Few  the  men  that  walk  the  narrow  way  of  wisdom  that  is  love. 
Who  would  serve  thee,  sacred  Mother,  and  preserve  thee  to  the  State, 

Chief est  of  thy  servants,  must  be  great ; 
Great  in  goodness,  great  in  counsel,  resolute  and  moderate, 
Serving  not  the  time  nor  temper,  moulding  men  for  God  and  State, 
Fit  himself  to  speak  the  nation's  voice  to  nations  and  to  arbitrate  ; 
In  the  larger,  never  hasting  purpose, 

Undisturbed 

In  the  faith  that  Right  will  blossom,  and  the  times  uncouth  amend, 
And  the  vulgar  babble  languish,  and  the  vain  desire  be  curbed. 
If  thy  fortunes  so  are  guided,  have  a  statesman  for  their  friend, 

Thy  years  descend  ! 

vm. 

Star-like  steady,  radiant  ready,  seeing  far  and  seeing  right, 
Fire-like  glowing,  cheer  bestowing,  generous  of  heart  and  light  — 
This  the  statesman-scholar  whom  we  honor  in  his  own  despite  ! 

Not  his  burning  thoughts  nor  golden 

Eloquence  alone  embolden 


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Us  to  heights  with  glory  emit, 
But  his  bright  example  holden 
In  the  heart,  unconscious,  golden, 

Life  on  lives  of  others  writ  — 
Life  that  tells  of  longer  life  within,  around,  above, 
Life  that  treads  the  path  of  duty  in  the  freedom  that  is  love, 
Life  that  knows  the  worth  of  life  and  shows  the  wealth  of  it. 
Vain  the  praises  that  we  give  him, 
Vain,  unworthy  to  outlive  him, 

For  he  recks  of  praises  nothing,  counts  them  neither  fair  nor  fit: 
He  who  bears  his  honors  lightly 

And  whose  age  renews  its  zest  — 
Lo,  the  maple,  snowed  upon,  is  sightly, 
And  its  sap  runs  best. 

rx. 

Honor  to  him,  peace  unto  him,  pointing  us  the  way  above, 
Love  unto  him,  long  life  to  him,  whom  no  love  of  life  can  move  ! 

Hardly  shall  we  find  another 
When  he  ceases,  — 

May  God  grant  thee  such  another 

Counselor,  O  Reverend  Mother, 
When  he  ceases,  — 

Grant  us  grieving  one  such  other 

President  and  friend  and  brother 

Ripe  in  wisdom,  just  in  judgment  —  whom  the  years  revolving  prove  — 
Leading  us  the  way  of  duty  in  the  freedom  that  is  love. 


DEAN  MURKAY'S  ADDRESS. 

It  seems  strange  that  only  in  recent  years  has  the  history 
of  educational  institutions  received  the  attention  it  deserves. 
A  search  through  our  libraries  would  show  that  the  orderly 
and  complete  records  of  the  Continental  and  British  univer- 
sities have  appeared  within  the  closing  period  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Anniversaries  of  their  founding  and  occasions  like 
the  present  have  done  much  to  stimulate  research  into  their 
educational  development.  The  part  great  universities  abroad 
have  been  playing  in  the  development  of  our  civilization  is 
now  becoming  understood.  This  is  a  hopeful  sign.  We  hail 
it  with  joy. 


22       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The  occasion  which  brings  us  together  to-day  has,  therefore, 
a  two-fold  significance.  Primarily,  chiefly  indeed,  it  is  a  per- 
sonal tribute  to  a  distinguished  educator,  whose  twenty-five 
years  of  service  here  have  won  for  him  a  national  renown. 
But  it  will  also  serve  to  fasten  more  widely  public  attention  on 
the  vast  interests  which  centre  in  every  such  institution  as  the 
University  of  Michigan,  charged  as  they  are  with  contents  so 
vital  to  the  best  things  in  life. 

In  the  "  drum  and  trumpet "  vein  of  history,  the  educator 
has  had  no  full  nor  just  recognition.  Fewer  lines  have  been 
given  to  John  Colet  than  to  the  Rye-House  Plot,  In  all  Eng- 
land, there  was  but  one  man,  John  Milton,  whose  tract  on 
education  marks  him  as  a  forerunner  of  modern  progressive 
views,  himself  indeed  an  educator  as  well  as  a  poet,  who  clearly 
saw  what  Comenius  represented  to  the  world.  We  to-day 
understand  for  the  first  time  the  great  services  rendered  by 
the  Middle- Age  universities  to  the  world's  progress.  In  them 
were  the  seeds  of  that  progress,  not  in  the  cabals  which  plot- 
ted in  every  European  court,  not  in  the  wretched  wars  which 
changed  the  map  of  the  world  and  did  not  better  its  condition, 
not  in  the  dreary  theological  disputes  which  racked  the  heads 
and  hearts  of  men.  And  yet  history  has  found  her  material 
mainly  in  such  movements,  and  not  in  the  silent  but  after  all 
deeper  forces  which  were  slowly  ripening  in  the  schools. 

But  the  change  has  come.  The  great  competitor  which 
challenges  recognition  at  the  expense  of  our  modern  educa- 
tional development  is  the  brilliant,  surpassing  material  growth 
of  our  times,  at  once  a  sign  of  our  progress  and  a  menace 
to  our  nobler  life.  Yet  there  are  indications  that  this  is  to 
become  tributary  to  educational  interests,  illustrations  of 
which  you  find  in  the  care  of  its  University  by  great  States 
like  Michigan,  and  by  the  consecration  of  private  wealth  to 
the  upbuilding  of  sister  institutions,  East  and  West. 

There  are,  however,  two  great  facts  emerging  to  view  as  one 
looks  over  the  whole  field  of  educational  progress.  One  is, 
that  like  any  other  great  cause,  religion,  statecraft,  philan- 
thropy, commercial  enterprise,  education  must  have  its  leaders. 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  23 

The  other  fact,  and  that  which  brings  me  to  the  specific  duty 
you  have  assigned  me,  is  that  every  great  institution  finds  its 
successful  growth  dependent  on  its  head.  It  is  not  too  much 
to  say  that  the  fortunes  of  any  educational  institution  will  vary 
with  the  fitness  of  its  chosen  head  to  preside  over  its  destinies. 
What  then  constitutes  an  ideal  president  for  an  institution 
like  the  University  of  Michigan  ?  He  has  been  well  described 
already  in  the  eloquent  address  of  Mr.  Cocker,  speaking  for 
the  Board  of  Regents,  and  in  the  beautiful  tribute  from  the 
Senate  presented  by  Dr.  D'Ooge.  What  shall  I  say  more  ? 
First  of  all,  he  should  be  a  scholar,  with  all  the  noble  instincts 
and  aspirations  and  insight  that  only  scholarship  can  give.  I 
have  great  respect  for  business  men  so-called.  But  I  cannot 
feel  that  the  headship  of  a  great  educational  institution  can  be 
wisely  left  to  men  who  are  simply  eminent  in  business  ability. 
The  position  demands  far  higher  qualities,  of  which  scholar- 
ship is  chief  and  secures  the  ability  to  guide  and  develop  edu- 
cational forces.  The  ideal  president  should  be,  too,  a  man  of 
affairs,  uniting  with  his  scholarship  administrative  gifts.  He 
should  be  endowed  with  the  power  and  charm  of  public  address, 
capable  of  attracting  men  by  the  affability  which  endows 
native  strength  with  new  force.  He  should  be  capable  too  of 
inspiring  his  Faculties  with  enthusiasm  and  uniting  them  in  a 
common  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  institution  they  serve. 
If  to  these  great  gifts  you  add  public  influence  gained  by  dis- 
tinguished public  services,  you  have  but  to  name  one  more 
element  and  you  have  the  ideal  university  president.  That  ele- 
ment is  an  earnest  and  attractive  religious  character,  the  root 
and  flower  of  all  that  is  highest  and  best  in  man.  And  I  need 
only  add  that  the  twenty-five  years  of  his  service  here  have 
shown  that  in  President  Angell  the  University  of  Michigan 
has  been  blest  with  the  labors,  as  it  gratefully  recognizes,  of 
the  ideal  university  president.  The  secret  of  this  great  suc- 
cess was  told  in  a  few  words  by  a  distinguished  physician  of 
New  York  city,  the  late  Dr.  Ben  Crosby :  "  President  Angell," 
he  said,  "  is  a  man  of  superb  quality  throughout." 

And  therefore  I  bring  to  him  and  to  you,  the  alumni  and 


24       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

friends  of  the  University,  the  greetings  of  the  Trustees  and 
Faculty  of  Princeton  College,  soon  to  celebrate  its  hundred 
and  fifty  years  of  educational  work,  and  to  become  in  name  as 
in  fact  Princeton  University.  The  institution  I  have  the 
honor  to  represent  gladly  recognizes  the  splendid  services  here 
done  for  higher  education.  Further,  I  bring  to  him  and  to 
you  the  salutations  of  his  Alma  Mater  and  mine,  fond  of  him, 
proud  of  him,  when  nigh  fifty  years  ago  his  scholarly  attain- 
ments gave  promise  which  he  has  fully  redeemed.  And,  lastly, 

0  my  friend  of  college  days, 

"  For  we  were  nursed  upon  the  self -same  hill," 

whose  friendship  has  been  to  me  through  all  the  changes  of 
life  a  blessed  joy  and  strength,  the  mellow,  sacred  light  of 
which  gilds  our  closing  years,  I  bring  you  my  own  heartfelt 
tribute. 

JUSTIN  WINSOR'S  ADDRESS. 

Two  years  ago  Harvard  recognized  the  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  President  Eliot,  and  he  has  commissioned  me  to 
extend  to-day  his  and  Harvard's  congratulations.  It  is  appro- 
priate for  these  two  great  universities  of  the  country,  one  of 
the  East  and  the  other  of  the  West,  to  exchange  greetings. 
Harvard,  under  the  burden  of  years,  shows  no  trace  of  senility, 

1  believe ;  and   Michigan  University  stands  even  yet  in  its 
youth  like  an  athletic  giant  prepared  to  go  on  to  further  con- 
quests. 

The  President  knows,  and  I  know,  but  perhaps  no  one  else 
in  this  assembly  knows,  how  gladly  at  one  time  Harvard  would 
have  welcomed  him  to  her  service.  That  he  decided  to  remain 
steadfast  to  your  interest  is  the  only  solace  we  feel  to-day  for  a 
lost  opportunity. 

PROFESSOR  CLARK'S   ADDRESS. 

As  the  Chairman  has  kindly  intimated,  I  am  here  in  a  two- 
fold character, —  first,  as  a  loyal  adopted  son  and  representa- 
tive of  Yale,  and  secondly,  as  a  loyal  son  of  this  University 
herself. 


OP    THK 

UNIVERSITY 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  25 

In  my  own  eyes  the  only  possible  qualification  I  have,  if 
any,  to  represent  Yale  on  this  memorable  occasion  is  loyalty 
to  both  universities,  and  I  could  sincerely  wish  that  she  might 
have  chosen  for  so  pleasant  and  important  a  duty  a  son  to 
the  manor  born,  —  one  gifted  in  speech  and  conspicuous  in 
achievement.  But  as  her  President  has  charged  me  with  the 
duty,  it  must  not  be  mine  to  reason  why.  I  bring  you  then 
her  hearty  greetings  and  congratulations,  and  earnest  assurance 
of  her  high  estimation  of  what  this  University  has  wrought, 
I  may  say,  from  the  very  beginning,  but  especially  of  what  she 
has  so  nobly  and  vigorously  achieved  under  the  preeminent 
and  masterly  leadership  of  the  President  whom  you  and  we 
now  so  justly  delight  to  publicly  honor. 

The  most  notable  features  of  the  wonderful  growth  and  pro- 
gress of  the  University  under  his  administration  of  a  quarter 
of  a  century  have  been  so  fittingly  recounted  by  representa- 
tives of  your  own  bodies,  that  I  must  not  now  allude  to  them 
further  than  to  say  that  they  cannot  but  have  deeply  impressed 
every  careful  student  of  educational  and  social  progress  in  our 
land,  and  made  it  plain  that  this  University  during  the  period 
we  commemorate  has  been  a  potent  factor  in  our  national  ad- 
vancement ;  and  of  her  healthy  action  upon  her  elder  sisters 
every  one  of  them  should  be  ready  to  testify,  and  doubtless  is. 

The  tribute  of  personal  admiration  which  you  have  brought 
at  this  time  to  the  accomplished  gentleman  and  scholar,  the 
able  and  skillful  administrator,  who  has  so  long  presided  over 
the  University  and  given  such  wise  direction  to  its  affairs  and 
impetus  to  its  progress,  while  as  has  often  been  remarked,  at 
the  same  time  bringing  it  additional  distinction  by  his  public 
services  to  the  country,  —  we  of  Yale  can  most  heartily  appre- 
ciate, and  there  are  still  among  our  numbers  some  who  came 
to  admire  him  at  an  early  period  of  his  distinguished  career, 
to  whom  it  will  be  especially  delightful. 

And  now,  President  Angell,  permit  me  both  in  my  represent- 
ative character  and  for  myself,  as  a  son  of  Michigan,  to  con- 
gratulate you  personally,  not  only  upon  the  splendid  success  of 
your  long  administration  and  the  loyal  and  devoted  friendship 


26       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

of  all  the  bodies  of  the  University,  which  it  has  so  firmly 
cemented,  but  also  upon  the  health  and  strength — the  well- 
nigh  youthful  vigor  —  you  still  enjoy,  and  which  encourages 
in  us  such  hopes  for  its  continuance.  And  finally,  in  conclud- 
ing these  congratulations,  allow  me  to  unite  with  the  gentle- 
men who  have  preceded  me  in  offering  you  the  homage  of  the 
heart. 

PRESIDENT   DRAPER'S   ADDRESS. 

The  committee  charged  with  the  arrangements  for  this 
event,  and  which  invited  me  to  come  and  bring  the  greetings 
and  kindly  wishes  of  other  State  Universities,  had  the  foresight 
to  signify  the  hope  that  I  would  bring  with  me  the  ability  to 
express  their  congratulations  in  not  more  than  fifteen  minutes 
of  time.  It  was  asking  a  great  deal ;  but  when  the  celebration 
was  to  be  so  significant,  the  friends  so  numerous,  and  the  con- 
gratulations so  abundant,  as  it  was  known  they  would  be, 
there  was  no  occasion  for  an  apology  for  the  imposition  of  a 
time  limit  upon  individual  speakers.  In  that,  your  committee 
only  exemplified  anew  the  worldly  wisdom  of  the  University  of 
Michigan. 

It  has  been  related  that  very  late  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Emer- 
son, when  his  mind  had  almost  failed  and  life  itself  was  just 
flickering  in  the  socket,  he  was  visited  at  Concord  by  Dr. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  They  walked  together  in  the  garden 
in  this  glorious  month  of  June.  In  a  half-conscious  state  Mr. 
Emerson  passed  myriads  of  flowers  until  they  came  upon  an 
American  Beauty  rose,  more  exquisite  and  stately  than  all  the 
rest.  It  caught  his  attention  and  started  his  enthusiasm  into 
life  again.  Straightening  himself,  the  grand  old  man  removed 
his  hat  with  dignity ;  then,  turning  to  his  friend  and  pointing 
to  the  flower,  he  said :  "  I  feel  like  taking  off  my  hat  to  it, 
sir." 

No  one  interested  in  higher  education  can  go  up  and  down 
the  earth  without  instinctively  removing  his  hat  when  he 
comes  to  the  University  of  Michigan.  The  first  time  I  really 
came  into  contact  with  it  was  when,  years  ago,  as  State  Super- 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  27 

intendent  of  the  Empire  State  and  ex  officio  a  trustee  of  Cor- 
nell University,  I  ran  against  so  large  a  section  of  your  Uni- 
versity as  is  represented  in  the  persons  of  Presidents  Andrew 
Dickson  White  and  Charles  Kendall  Adams.  You  will  not 
deny  that  you  were  represented  in  a  way  to  challenge  my  ad- 
miration at  once.  Since  then  I  have  been  in  some  trouble,  for 
I  have  learned  that  you  are  so  much  in  evidence  upon  the 
earth  that,  if  one  is  to  follow  the  chivalric  example  of  Mr. 
Emerson,  he  will  have  to  stand  with  his  hat  in  his  hand  a  good 
part  of  the  time. 

But  the  fact  that  the  University  of  Michigan  has  grown 
strong  and  great  is  not  her  chief  glory.  So  much  might  be 
said  of  others.  Much  more  may  be  said  of  her.  She  has 
been  a  pioneer  in  world  history.  She  was  the  first  realization 
of  Washington's  dream  and  of  Jefferson's  plan.  Of  all  the 
unique  characteristics  of  the  American  free-school  system,  none 
is  more  typical  of  American  thought,  none  goes  farther  to 
exemplify  the  American  spirit  in  the  world,  than  that  one 
which  has  had  its  marked  development  in  recent  years  and  in 
the  States  of  the  centre  and  the  West ;  which  has  made  State 
Universities  as  much  a  part  of  that  system  as  are  the  ele- 
mentary schools ;  which  has  gained  for  these  universities  the 
support  and  made  them  the  pride  of  the  people ;  which  has 
adapted  their  work  to  life's  real  conditions  ;  which  has  made 
a  smooth  and  continuous  road  from  the  primary  school  up  to 
and  through  them ;  and  which  arouses  an  ambition  on  the 
part  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  the  multitudes  to  follow  that 
road  to  the  end.  In  that  great  movement  the  University  of 
Michigan  led  the  way,  and  she  led  it  so  steadily  and  strongly, 
so  bravely  and  so  cheerily,  that  she  has  gained  the  respect  of 
all  the  world,  and  easily  become  much  more  than  the  most  con- 
spicuous institution  and  the  chief  glory  of  the  Commonwealth 
whose  name  she  bears. 

No  other  testimony  can  speak  the  praise  of  an  individual  so 
strongly,  and  probably  none  so  properly  and  so  acceptably,  as 
evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which  the  world  holds  the  work  he 
has  performed.  The  circumstances  and  life  of  the  people,  the 


28       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

minds  and  hearts  of  managers,  instructors,  and  students,  all  go 
to  determine  the  life  of  a  university.  But  we  all  know  how 
the  life  in  the  executive  office  exerts  an  influence  above  and 
beyond  that  of  any  other.  If  incapable  of  leadership,  the  term 
is  short ;  if  it  makes  for  peace,  it  moulds  the  whole  mass ;  if 
it  promotes  health  and  growth,  it  pours  its  qualities  into  the 
lives  of  all  the  rest. 

I  have  little  knowledge  of  the  details  of  your  University 
history.  The  names  of  Tappan,  and  Haven,  and  others  are 
familiar,  and  we  all  know  how  deserving  they  are  of  our  grate- 
ful remembrance.  But  a  later  name  has  occupied  the  first 
place  twice  as  long  as  any  other.  That  one  was  among  the 
first,  if  it  was  not  the  first,  of  a  new  style  and  order  of  men  in 
the  college  presidencies  of  the  country.  But  its  success  has 
been  so  marked,  qualities  for  which  it  stands  have  been  so 
potent  in  institutional  development,  that,  when  an  opening 
now  occurs  in  any  college  or  university,  little  consideration 
is  given  to  any  name  which  is  not  to  be  found  somewhere  in 
its  general  class. 

Coming  to  this  presidency,  not  in  the  late  years  of  an 
honored  life,  but  in  vigorous  young  manhood,  James  B.  Angell 
brought  with  him  zeal  and  enthusiasm,  sympathy  with  the 
young  and  interest  in  their  ambitions,  a  knowledge  of  the 
world's  affairs,  and  a  keen  appreciation  of,  and  undoubting 
confidence  in,  the  inevitable  trend  of  modern  life.  He  has 
kept  in  touch  with  the  world  and  in  close  sympathy  with  its 
people.  He  has  reveled  in  and  he  has  enriched  its  literature. 
He  has  written  much,  and  his  writings  have  stimulated  all  the 
higher  interests  of  humanity.  The  time  which  you  have 
allowed  him  to  give  to  the  diplomatic  service  of  the  nation  has 
been  of  great  value  to  the  public  interests  at  once  and  directly  ; 
but  it  has  been  of  much  greater  indirect  value  because  of  the 
extent  to  which  it  sharpened  his  thought  and  opened  the  way 
for  his  influence,  in  all  the  succeeding  years,  upon  the  affairs 
of  his  country,  and  upon  her  interdependent  relations  with 
the  other  nations  of  the  world.  It  brought  very  high  returns 
to  you  in  a  still  larger,  broader,  stronger  life,  which  was  to  be 


EXERCISES  IN  UNIVERSITY  HALL.  29 

even  more  controlling  in  making  a  stronger,  truer,  higher  life 
for  you.  He  has  stood  for  a  symmetrical  and  complete  public 
educational  system ;  he  has  been  a  valued  factor,  and  made 
your  University  a  still  more  important  factor,  indeed  a  leading 
and  historic  factor,  in  the  evolution  of  such  a  system.  Per- 
haps better  than  all,  his  spirit  has  been  at  peace  with  the 
world,  at  one  with  its  Maker,  attuned  to  the  harmony  of  the 
skies.  And  year  after  year  these  attributes  of  his  individu- 
ality, as  they  have  grown  riper  and  richer,  have  been  bravely 
and  cheerily  shaping  the  character,  framing  and  declaring  the 
policy,  widening  the  influence  and  determining  the  status,  of 
the  University  of  Michigan. 

All  of  the  State  Universities  extend  to  your  President  and 
your  University  their  heartiest  greetings  upon  this  silvery 
anniversary.  All  remember  and  testify  of  the  courteous  visits, 
frequently  at  no  little  inconvenience  to  himself,  and  the  stimu- 
lating suggestions  of  your  President  in  their  own  work ;  and 
all  bear  witness  to  the  leading  and  helpful  influence  of  your 
great  institution  in  their  affairs.  All  send  you  congratula- 
tions, not  only  upon  what  has  been  and  what  is,  but  also  upon 
the  excellent  promise  of  what  is  to  be. 

I  have  observed  this  morning,  with  some  little  irritation  to 
my  sensibilities,  something  of  a  disposition  to  make  frequent 
and  perhaps  doleful  reference  to  the  fact  that  we  are  all  grow- 
ing old,  and  that  some  time  we  shall  have  an  account  with 
Nature  which  we  shall  be  called  upon  to  settle.  I  came  up  to 
a  celebration,  not  to  a  memorial  service ;  and  a  celebration  it 
shall  be.  There  is  nothing  here  to  make  a  memorial  service 
out  of,  if  we  were  to  try  it.  It  is  an  anniversary  of  a  most 
consequential  event  in  the  history  of  this  institution,  a  celebra- 
tion of  noble  accomplishments,  a  public  and  glad  testimonial 
of  the  fact  that  the  heights  of  successful  leadership  have  been 
attained  by  a  man  and  by  an  institution,  in  serenity  of  mind, 
in  perfect  health,  and  amid  the  universal  acclaim  and  the  un- 
limited commendation  of  the  multitude. 

Now  may  the  fruits  be  enjoyed,  and  the  resulting  conse- 
quences be  unfolded  and  enforced !  May  good  health,  long 


30        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

life,  and  many  years  hence  a  serene,  youthful  old  age,  en- 
riched by  the  support  of  the  innumerable  lives  he  has  helped 
and  by  honors  he  has  earned,  be  the  gracious  lot  of  President 
Angell !  May  the  University,  under  the  continued  influence  of 
his  benign  leadership,  mount  upon  its  own  achievements  to 
higher  and  still  higher  things ;  may  there  be  other  anniver- 
saries of  even  greater  significance,  and  may  we  be  there  to 
help  them  on ! 

COMMISSIONER  HARRIS'S   ADDRESS. 

While  the  United  States  as  a  whole  feels  interest  in  the 
prosperity  of  the  State  of  Michigan,  and  in  each  county  and 
township  of  Michigan,  yet  it  cannot  regard  the  prosperity  of 
Michigan  University  as  in  any  sense  a  local  interest.  In 
many  ways  the  history  of  this  University  has  been  the  history 
of  higher  education  for  a  large  portion  of  the  Union. 

For  Michigan  was  the  first  to  demonstrate  that  an  institu- 
tion founded  by  the  government  of  a  State,  and  dependent  on 
the  legislature  for  a  large  portion  of  its  support,  can  gather 
in  its  Faculty  a  corps  of  professors  thoroughly  cultured  in  all 
branches  of  human  learning ;  and,  more  than  this,  that  it  can 
demand  and  secure  of  its  students  a  high  standard  of  prepara- 
tion, and  a  thorough  mastery  of  the  college  course,  as  a  condi- 
tion of  receiving  its  diploma  of  graduation. 

Other  States  in  this  great  Northwest  have  seen  the  mag- 
nificent achievements  of  the  people  of  Michigan,  and  have 
followed  its  lead  to  a  high  success.  But  Michigan  was  the 
pioneer,  and  solved  on  its  way  those  problems  that  beset 
higher  education  which  arise  when  it  depends  upon  the  will 
of  the  masses  of  the  people,  themselves  not  participant  in  the 
advantages  of  higher  education  and  sometimes  jealous  of  its 
influence. 

This  University  has  shown  what  higher  education  can  do 
for  secondary  and  elementary  education,  lifting  it  up  to  the 
required  standard,  stimulating  each  ambitious  youth  to  avail 
himself  of  the  opportunities  extended  to  him  in  the  free  public 
school  system  crowned  with  a  university  at  the  summit. 


EXERCISES  IN   UNIVERSITY  HALL.  31 

It  was  the  disciple  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  A.  B.  Woodward, 
appointed  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Territory  of 
Michigan,  who,  in  his  zeal  for  his  master's  idea  of  a  State  Uni- 
versity, procured  the  adoption  of  the  law  first  establishing  such 
an  institution,  five  years  before  a  similar  law  was  enacted  in 
Virginia.  Although  the  pedantry  of  its  Greek  nomenclature 
has  drawn  ridicule  upon  the  scheme  of  Judge  Woodward,  yet 
the  idea  of  an  all-round  system  of  learning  has  exercised  an 
educative  effect  on  the  people  of  Michigan  ever  since  its  pro- 
mulgation. 

The  fortunes  of  the  University  have  attracted  about  it  as  a 
nucleus  a  series  of  remarkable  men,  such  as  Isaac  E.  Crary, 
John  D.  Pierce,  Asa  Gray  the  botanist,  Henry  Philip  Tappan, 
Erastus  Otis  Haven,  Henry  Simmons  Frieze.  These  names 
are  precious  in  the  history  of  education.  Before  Massachu- 
setts had  established  a  board  of  education,  —  before  it  had 
appointed  its  great  secretary,  Horace  Mann,  —  John  D.  Pierce 
held  the  office  of  State  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Michigan. 
With  him  came  a  new  impulse  towards  realizing  the  lofty 
ideal  of  a  university  which  had  already  existed  twenty  years, 
on  paper,  in  this  State. 

There  should  always  be  named  to  the  honor  of  this  Univer- 
sity the  introduction  of  seminary  instruction  in  history  and 
kindred  topics,  a  skillful  adaptation  of  a  European  method, 
by  Professor  Charles  Kendall  Adams.  On  this  has  been 
founded  the  second  stage  of  higher  education,  that  of  post- 
graduate study,  which  is  now  growing  so  rapidly  over  the  coun- 
try, especially  from  the  centres  of  Harvard,  Cornell,  Johns 
Hopkins,  Chicago,  and  Wisconsin.  The  seminary  and  labora- 
tory, so  early  developed  here,  furnish  the  means  of  original 
investigation,  and  it  is  this  that  makes  pctet-graduate  courses 
worth  the  time  of  the  student.  The  future  of  higher  education 
in  the  United  States  is  to  be  closely  bound  up  with  the  work 
of  the  seminary  and  the  laboratory. 

For  these  and  many  other  important  movements  initiated 
here,  —  such  as  the  credit  system,  the  diploma  relation,  coedu- 
cation in  State  Universities,  the  special  system  for  teachers,  — 


32       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

for  all  these  things  the  other  States,  nay,  the  nation  itself,  holds 
in  high  regard  Michigan  University,  and  claims  it  as  of  the 
whole  people,  and  not  of  Michigan  locally.  It  rejoices  with 
you  to-day  in  celebrating  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
ripe  scholar  who  has  presided  here  in  these  later  years  of 
phenomenal  growth  in  numbers  and  in  power.  It  claims  Dr. 
Angell  especially  as  one  of  the  ablest  members  of  its  diplo- 
matic reserve  corps,  borrowing  his  wisdom  and  learning,  as 
occasion  needs,  to  sit  on  its  treaty  commissions  or  represent 
the  general  government  at  foreign  courts. 

President  Angell  is  always  to  be  remembered  by  students  of 
sociology  for  the  great  work  he  did  during  the  time  of  our 
civil  war,  and  just  previous,  in  the  way  of  creating  the  great 
daily  newspaper,  —  in  making  it  the  educator  of  the  people 
that  it  has  become;  in  making  it  the  generative  process  of 
Public  Opinion.  For  we  are  more  and  more  governed  by 
Public  Opinion,  and  it  is  the  newspaper  that  makes  possible 
its  formation,  leading  it  through  a  progressive  development 
out  of  the  stage  of  mere  first  impulse  on  to  a  deliberate  com- 
parison of  grounds  and  reasons,  and  finally  deepening  the 
thought  to  a  contemplation  of  causes.  By  this  the  mind  of 
the  people  arrives  at  conviction  in  the  place  of  mere  impulse. 

This  converts  the  newspaper  into  an  instrument  of  school 
extension  by  which  all  people  continue  their  education,  and  it 
forms  a  sort  of  national  council  by  which  contradictory  feelings 
and  prejudices  become  purified  and  adjusted  into  wisdom. 
This  makes  a  great  republic  possible ;  hence  the  newspaper  is 
not  secondary  to  the  school  in  this  country  and  throughout  the 
world. 

I  congratulate  you,  on  this  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of 
his  presidency,  in  the  possession  of  a  scholar,  a  wise  adminis- 
trative officer,  a  member  of  that  national  diplomatic  council 
that  will  preserve  our  peace  with  foreign  nations,  and  a  pro- 
moter of  the  daily  newspaper  to  higher  fields  of  usefulness. 


THE  EESPONSES  AT   THE  DINNER. 


PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  RESPONSE. 

I  NEED  hardly  say  that  my  heart  is  overflowing  with  grati- 
tude to  you  all  to-day  ;  but  will  you  allow  me  to  confess,  with 
some  frankness,  that  it  is  with  hesitation  and  shrinking  that 
I  have  seen  this  day  approach  ?  for  I  have  felt  that  I  was  so 
utterly  unworthy  of  the  demonstrations  which  you  are  making 
to-day.  If  I  had  not  been  persuaded  by  my  good  friends 
that  in  some  manner  this  demonstration  might  inure  to  the 
benefit  of  the  University,  I  hope  that  it  is  not  ungracious  nor 
ungrateful  for  me  to  say  that  I  should  have  much  preferred 
that  it  should  be  omitted.  But  I  certainly  should  be  more  or 
less  than  human  not  to  be  touched  in  my  inmost  heart  by  the 
manifestation  that  has  been  made  to-day.  I  know  not  how 
to  better  express  my  emotions  than  by  quoting  the  words 
of  Voltaire,  who,  on  his  return  to  Paris  in  his  old  age,  when 
he  was  so  cordially  received  by  many  old  friends,  exclaimed, 
On  m'etouffe  des  roses  (they  suffocate  me  with  roses).  I 
suppose  that  it  is  proper  and  perhaps  is  expected  that  the  few 
words  which  I  shall  speak  now  should  pertain  more  especially 
to  my  personal  relations  to  the  University.  If  they  do,  I  trust 
you  will  acquit  me  in  advance  of  any  appearance  of  egotism. 

I  was  called  to  my  present  position  in  1869.  I  then  made 
a  visit  to  the  University.  On  my  return  to  the  University  of 
Vermont,  I  found  that  the  friends  of  that  institution,  who  had 
raised  an  endowment  fund,  would  be  greatly  disappointed  if 
I  did  not  remain  long  enough  to  assist  in  the  distribution  of 
the  fund.  I  therefore  at  once  declined  the  invitation  to  Michi- 
gan. Two  years  later  the  Regents  renewed  the  invitation, 
and  by  that  time  the  University  of  Vermont  had  made  such 
3 


34       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

progress  that  I  felt  free  to  leave  it.  While,  with  much  em- 
barrassment, I  was  debating  the  question  in  my  own  mind 
whether  I  should  come  here,  I  fell  in  with  a  friend  who  had 
very  large  business  interests,  and  he  made  this  very  suggestive 
remark  to  me :  "  Given  the  long  lever,  it  is  no  harder  to  lift  a 
big  load  than  it  is  with  a  shorter  one  to  lift  a  smaller  load." 
I  decided  to  try  the  end  of  the  long  lever. 

I  was  forty-two  when  I  came  here,  and  I  supposed  that,  if 
I  should  prove  equal  to  the  task,  I  might  fairly  hope  to  be  of 
some  service  to  the  University  for  at  least  ten  years,  or  per- 
haps fifteen.  I  think  I  can  unhesitatingly  say  that  from  that 
moment  all  my  aspirations  were  directed  towards  the  upbuild- 
ing of  this  institution.  It  is  true  that  I  have  been  occasionally 
drafted  into  the  public  service  by  Presidents  of  the  United 
States ;  but  I  have  never  suffered  myself  to  yield  to  this  draft 
until  the  Eegents  themselves  had  expressed  the  opinion  that  it 
would  be  beneficial  to  the  University  that  I  should  do  so.  I 
may  now  say  here,  what  I  have  never  said  before,  that  I  have 
several  times  been  called  to  other  universities  and  other  fields 
of  labor,  under  the  temptation  of  larger  salary,  but  I  have 
never  given  ear  to  any  of  the  calls,  because  I  have  always  felt 
that  so  long  as  you  desired  me  here  and  my  presence  was 
useful,  I  preferred  to  remain  with  you. 

I  may  mention  as  a  cause  of  sincere  gratitude  to  God  that, 
during  all  these  years  of  my  life  here,  I  have  been  in  the 
enjoyment  of  excellent  health ;  and  what  I  wish  to  say  for  the 
encouragement  of  some  of  my  younger  friends,  and  perhaps 
rather  a  remarkable  thing  to  say,  is  that  since  I  entered 
college  in  the  year  1845,  with  the  exception  of  six  years  of 
editorial  life,  I  have  been  constantly  engaged,  either  as  a  stu- 
dent or  as  a  teacher,  in  college,  and  from  that  time  till  now 
I  believe  that  I  have  never  been  obliged  by  illness  to  miss  a 
recitation  or  a  regular  appointment. 

When  I  came  here,  good  Doctor  Frieze,  I  suppose  drawing 
his  prophecy  from  his  experience  of  two  years  as  acting  Presi- 
dent, said  to  me :  "  You  will  often  find  cares  and  anxieties 
running  over  your  head  mountain  high,  but,"  he  added  with 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  35 

sympathy  and  kindness,  "  I  believe  you  will  emerge  from 
them."  These  cares,  I  need  not  say,  have  greatly  increased 
with  the  growth  of  the  University ;  but  if  I  refer  to  them 
briefly  in  passing,  do  not  suppose  that  my  life  has  not  been 
filled  with  joys.  The  delightful  companionship  of  these 
friends  of  mine ;  the  deepening  interest  of  the  State  in  the 
University,  its  continuous  and  rapid  growth,  its  increasing 
fame  even  beyond  the  seas  ;  the  enthusiasm  and  affection  and 
success  of  these  thousands  of  students  ;  the  cordiality  and  de- 
votion of  our  alumni,  many  of  whom  graduated  before  my 
time ;  the  visions  which  I  have  of  the  greatness  and  power  of 
this  University  fifty  years,  a  century  hence,  —  these  have  daily 
thrilled  my  heart  with  rapture  and  flooded  my  pathway  with 
sunshine.  And  now  you  have  come  to  crown  all  these  joys 
with  this  beautiful  tribute  of  your  affection  and  esteem  to-day. 
Appreciative  as  I  am  of  all  your  kindness,  and  grateful  as 
I  am  for  all  the  kind  wishes  that  have  been  or  may  be  ex- 
pressed, I  beg  to  assure  you  that  if  this  celebration  shall  re- 
dound to  the  benefit  of  the  University,  and  shall  increase  the 
devotion  of  the  alumni  to  it,  and  the  pride  of  the  State  in  it, 
it  will  be  the  supremest  joy  which  this  day  brings  to  my  heart. 
I,  and  even  my  younger  colleagues,  must  soon  pass  away,  but 
the  University  goes  on  forever.  It  is  far  more  than  any  one 
man,  —  more  than  all  of  us  together.  If  there  is  any  one  word 
that  I  wish  to  say,  in  addition  to  the  word  of  thanks  to-day, 
it  is  this :  Work  for  the  perpetuity  of  this  University ;  per- 
suade the  legislatures,  persuade  the  people  of  the  State,  per- 
suade all  generous-minded  men,  to  plan  for  the  perpetuity  of 
this  great  University.  If  there  is  any  lesson  that  history 
teaches,  it  is  that,  next  to  the  church,  the  most  enduring  and 
beneficent  agencies  are  the  great  universities  of  the  world. 
During  the  past  four  hundred  years,  kings  and  emperors  have 
appeared  and  disappeared,  dynasties  have  risen  and  fallen, 
the  map  of  Europe  has  been  made  and  remade ;  but  the  great 
universities  like  Bologna,  Paris,  and  Oxford  stand  to-day 
fresh  in  eternal  youth,  pouring  out  their  fertilizing  streams 
of  learning  in  an  unceasing  flood.  Is  it  not  the  most  natural 


36        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

thing  for  every  one  of  us  to  believe  that,  after  our  children 
and  our  children's  children  shall  have  passed  away,  this  Uni- 
versity shall  still  be  pouring  out  her  streams  of  blessings, 
wider  and  deeper,  over  the  State,  the  nation,  and  the  world? 
We  may  indeed  be  thankful  that  we  have  been  allowed  to  toil 
for  her  in  these  her  early  years.  Happy  are  you  who  have 
the  honor  of  calling  yourselves  her  sons  and  daughters  ;  a  long 
and  noble  line  will  follow  you.  The  imagination  fails  to  con- 
ceive what  shall  be  the  glory,  the  power,  and  influence  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  one  hundred  years  hence.  I  only 
know  that,  with  one  heart  and  one  voice,  all  of  us  here,  and  the 
thousands  of  sons  and  daughters  of  this  University  who  are 
scattered  over  the  earth  to-day,  —  all  of  them  are  ready  to 
join  with  me  in  shouting,  JEsto  perpetua  ! 

EX-REGENT  WILLAED'S  RESPONSE. 

While  the  sentiment  just  announced  seems  to  convey  a  hint 
that  I  am  to  be  the  Nestor  of  this  occasion  and  deal  in  remi- 
niscence, I  shall  endeavor  to  keep  in  mind  the  danger  of  pro- 
lixity incident  to  such  a  role.  It  need  scarcely  be  said  in  this 
presence  that  it  is  one  of  my  proudest  recollections  that  I 
had  a  part,  as  member  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  in  calling  Dr. 
Angell  to  the  presidency  of  the  University.  It  is  assuredly  a 
great  satisfaction  to  witness  this  conspicuous  recognition  of 
the  wisdom  of  the  choice  then  made. 

My  first  official  connection  with  the  University  was  on  the 
first  of  January,  1864,  when,  under  a  new  provision  of  the 
State  constitution,  a  Board  of  Regents  entered  upon  duty 
who,  with  one  exception,  were  all  new  members.  It  may  seem 
strange,  but  it  was  nevertheless  true,  that  we  regarded  the 
University  at  that  time  as  a  somewhat  old  institution,  though 
it  had  measured  but  two  decades  of  its  history.  We  thought 
it  a  very  large  institution,  with  a  roll  of  students  numbering 
about  one  third  of  the  present  matriculation  list,  and  with 
only  one  fifth  of  the  present  enrollment  in  its  Faculties  ;  and,  as 
my  memory  goes  back  to  a  still  earlier  period  when  the  insti- 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  37 

tution  was  in  its  infancy,  and  notes  the  contrast  presented  by 
this  great  assemblage  of  alumni  and  other  representatives  of 
the  University,  and  the  distinguished  educators  from  all  parts 
of  our  great  country  who  have  come  to  bring  their  congratu- 
lations upon  an  event  which  so  notably  suggests  its  prosperity 
and  growth,  I  am  reminded  of  a  little  incident  which  occurred 
in  my  boyhood,  and  which  has  its  chief  title  to  mention  from 
the  two  eminent  citizens  of  our  State  with  whom  it  is  asso- 
ciated. Away  back  early  in  the  "  forties,"  at  a  state  tem- 
perance convention  held  in  the  then  little  village  of  Marshall, 
one  of  the  prominent  questions  under  discussion  was  the 
location  of  the  state  temperance  monthly  paper.  A  young 
Methodist  clergyman,  then  unknown  to  fame,  but  who  after- 
wards became  one  of  the  most  influential  leaders  in  his  denom- 
ination, dilated  with  great  eloquence  upon  the  importance  of 
having  the  paper  removed  from  Detroit  to  Marshall,  the  centre 
of  the  State,  when  a  tall,  slim  young  lawyer  from  the  Detroit 
delegation  rose  to  reply.  He  said  the  gentleman  last  up, 
in  claiming  Marshall  as  the  centre  of  Michigan,  was  much 
like  the  boy  he  had  known  on  a  farm  next  to  his  father's  in 
Vermont.  The  unsophisticated  country  lad  went  out  one  day 
into  the  pasture,  and,  while  reclining  upon  the  grass,  looked 
up  at  the  sky,  and  in  a  tone  of  astonishment  exclaimed,  "  I 
swan  !  I  never  knew  before  that  dad's  farm  was  right  in  the 
middle  of  the  world."  The  incident  will  perhaps  be  more 
fully  appreciated  when  I  say  that  the  participants  in  this 
discussion  were  the  Rev.  Dr.  Elijah  H.  Pilcher  and  the  Hon. 
William  A.  Howard,  both  of  whose  names  are  indelibly  im- 
printed upon  the  history  of  our  State.  I  am  certain  that  if 
these  distinguished  men,  who  were  always  among  the  Universi- 
ty's nearest  friends  and  champions,  were  now  living,  and  were 
with  us  here  to-day,  they  would  both  agree  that  the  institution 
which  has  become  so  fully  an  object  of  our  state  pride  has  also 
become  much  more  completely  a  literary  and  educational 
centre  in  our  American  world  than  they  ever  dreamed. 

Upon   the   resignation   of   President   Haven   in   1869  the 
Regents  began  to  look  out  for  a  successor.     We  had  one  or 


38        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

two  meetings  for  the  purpose  of  selection,  but,  no  satisfac- 
tory names  being  suggested,  it  was  determined  that  a  com- 
mittee of  three  of  our  number  should  make  a  tour  through  the 
Eastern  States,  especially  New  England,  to  interview  leading 
educators,  to  visit  some  of  the  principal  colleges,  to  inquire 
concerning  certain  prominent  men  suggested  for  the  position, 
and  to  report  the  results  of  the  investigation  to  the  Board. 
My  associates  on  the  committee  were  Regents  J.  M.  B.  Sill, 
now  United  States  Minister  to  Corea,  and  J.  Eastman  Johnson, 
of  Centreville.  We  proceeded  eastward  together  as  far  as 
Albany,  where  Regent  Johnson  left  on  a  separate  tour,  while 
Professor  Sill  and  myself  went  to  New  York  city.  After  two 
or  three  days'  search  for  information  in  that  metropolis,  we 
went  to  New  Haven. 

Our  chief  purpose  in  visiting  Yale  was  to  make  inquiry 
concerning  a  person  especially  recommended  to  us  by  the  late 
Professor  Frieze  as  undoubtedly  possessing  the  right  qualifi- 
cations for  the  place  we  sought  to  fill,  —  President  Angell 
of  the  University  of  Vermont.  First  interviewing  President 
Woolsey,  clarum  et  venerabile  nomen,  we  were  put  upon  the 
right  track  for  reaching  the  object  of  our  search.  He  said  : 
"  I  am  not  in  direct  touch  with  the  younger  men  in  college 
work,  and  feel  unable  properly  to  meet  your  inquiries,  though 
I  can  say  that  Dr.  Angell  has  acquired,  for  so  young  a  man, 
a  very  fine  reputation,  and  would  unquestionably  make  an 
efficient  head  of  your  University."  He  then  referred  us  to 
Professor  Noah  Porter,  who  was  afterward  President  Woolsey's 
successor.  From  him  we  had  a  hearty  welcome,  and  to  the 
subject  of  our  inquiry  he  replied :  "I  do  not  know  of  any 
man  in  New  England  so  well  fitted  for  the  presidency  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  as  Dr.  Angell,  and  there  is  one  nigh 
at  hand  who  can  give  you  the  most  complete  knowledge  of  his 
qualifications.  Professor  George  P.  Fisher  of  our  Yale, 
Professor  Diman  of  Brown  University,  and  President  Angell 
are  a  kind  of  trinity  here  in  New  England,  and  if  you  see 
Professor  Fisher  you  will  be  able  to  determine  the  prospect 
of  securing  Dr.  Angell."  So  he  ran  out  bareheaded  with  us 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE   DINNER.  39 

over  the  little  lawn  to  the  residence  of  Professor  Fisher,  who 
gave  us  a  most  favorable  account  of  Dr.  Angell's  qualities, 
his  intellectual  force,  his  accurate  scholarship,  his  executive 
ability,  his  genial  personality,  and  his  experience  in  affairs,  con- 
cluding with  the  declaration  that  in  his  acceptance  of  a  call 
to  our  University  we  might  regard  ourselves  as  extremely  for- 
tunate. It  may  well  be  imagined  that  by  this  time  we  had 
become  quite  certain  that  we  had  hit  upon  the  right  clue  for 
obtaining  the  object  of  our  search. 

We  pursued  our  way,  and  on  a  Saturday  afternoon  of  a 
warm  summer  day  arrived  at  Burlington.  "When  we  were  as- 
signed to  our  rooms  at  the  hotel,  which  looked  out  upon  Lake 
Champlain  and  the  distant  Adirondacks,  I  for  one  began  se- 
riously to  reflect  upon  the  purpose  of  our  mission.  We  had 
come  there  to  remain  for  a  few  days  perfectly  incognito,  with 
an  object  that  seemed  very  much  like  an  invasion  of  the  most 
dearly  cherished  institution  of  the  place.  We  had  come  in 
the  character  of  spies  into  that  peaceful  valley,  with  the  inten- 
tion of  taking  from  it  the  man  in  whom  the  pride  of  its  people 
had  been  centred.  My  own  feelings  in  the  affair  were  all  the 
more  intensified  as  our  clandestine  operations  were  conducted 
on  the  soil  of  my  native  State  and  county.  It  was,  on  the 
whole,  a  very  unpleasant  feeling,  for  which  the  only  compensa- 
tion was  the  high  service  that  we  felt  we  were  rendering  to  our 
own  Commonwealth  of  Michigan.  The  next  day  we  heard 
President  Angell  deliver  his  baccalaureate  for  Commencement 
week,  and  you  all  know  Dr.  Angell's  baccalaureates ;  to  say 
that  we  were  charmed  would  inadequately  express  our  admira- 
tion. We  both  said,  "  There  is  the  man  we  seek ;  "  but  we 
thought  it  best  to  interview  some  of  the  leading  citizens  of 
Burlington,  among  others  United  States  Senator  Edmunds, 
who  said  :  "  Gentlemen,  President  Angell  is  all  your  fancy  has 
painted ;  he  would  undoubtedly  be  the  right  man  for  you  in 
Michigan,  but  we  cannot  spare  him  from  Vermont."  So  we 
began  to  realize  that  we  were  confronted  with  a  contest  be- 
tween the  State  of  Vermont  and  the  State  of  Michigan.  We 
returned.  Dr.  Angell  was  invited  to  the  presidency  of  Michi- 


40       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

gan  University.  He  visited  the  institution,  and  made  an  im- 
pression upon  the  Faculty  and  the  citizens  of  Ann  Arbor 
which  only  gave  intensity  to  the  desire  for  his  acceptance. 
But  the  Board  were  destined  to  be  rejected  suitors  for  the 
time. 

The  vacant  presidential  chair  in  the  University  was  tempo- 
rarily and  ably  filled  by  Professor  Frieze,  who  had  been  elected 
Acting  President,  but  who  like  Caesar  put  away  the  crown 
and  refused  to  become  permanent  President ;  and  when,  after 
an  interval  of  a  year  and  a  half,  it  was  learned  that  perhaps 
Dr.  Angell  might  favorably  entertain  a  proposal  to  become 
the  head  of  the  University,  I  had  the  good  fortune  to  open  a 
correspondence  with  him  which  resulted  in  his  presenting 
the  terms  of  his  acceptance.  Finally,  in  February,  1871,  the 
proposition  was  laid  before  the  Board  of  Kegents,  and  he  was 
promptly  and  unanimously  elected,  to  the  signal  satisfaction 
of  the  University  Faculty  and  the  friends  of  the  institution 
throughout  the  State. 

Dr.  Angell,  in  our  conference  at  Burlington,  had  desired  to 
know  just  what  relation  our  University  held  to  the  State.  He 
frankly  said  :  "  State  universities  have  not  always  been  a  suc- 
cess. What  have  you  to  say  for  your  own  in  that  regard?" 
I  said  to  him  in  reply  that  the  relation  of  the  University  to 
the  State,  in  Michigan,  was  somewhat  unlike  that  held  by 
other  universities  to  their  respective  States ;  that  the  Consti- 
tution of  our  State  had  conferred  the  control  of  the  University 
upon  a  Board  of  Regents  elected  especially  for  that  purpose, 
and  that  they  were  its  real  legislature.  I  also  endeavored 
to  point  out  the  accepted  theory  in  the  internal  management 
of  the  institution,  —  that  it  was  conformed  to  the  old  motto  on 
the  seal  of  Michigan  Territory,  Fit  surculus  arbor  ;  that  the 
University  was  something  planted  with  a  design  to  grow  and 
develop  of  itself,  without  depending  wholly  upon  outward  di- 
rection. I  endeavored  to  show  further  that  our  Board  of  Ke- 
gents was  a  body  of  agreeable,  self-sacrificing  gentlemen,  who 
were  supposed  by  the  people  who  elected  them  to  generally 
confirm  the  decrees  of  the  University  Senate ;  that  the  several 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  41 

Faculties  and  local  administrators  of  the  institution  were  its 
real  managers  ;  that  the  eight  Regents  —  and  I  desire  to  say 
nothing  disparaging  to  the  really  valuable  service  rendered  by 
them  in  their  own  sphere  —  were  not  merely  a  great  conven- 
ience as  lictors  to  accompany  the  President  and  to  ornament 
the  platform  on  Commencement  Day,  but  were  extremely  use- 
ful as  a  shield  and  protector  of  the  University  in  its  normal 
development. 

The  Regents  from  the  beginning  have  generally  pursued  the 
policy  of  refraining  from  too  much  intermeddling  with  the  in- 
ternal management  of  the  institution.  While  they  have  aided 
in  securing  a  proper  recognition  by  the  State  of  its  obligations 
to  provide  for  its  needs,  and  have  had  the  duty  of  electing  the 
professors  and  other  officers  of  the  institution,  and  have  also 
had  the  unpleasant  task  of  occasional  decapitation  turned  over 
to  them,  yet  the  principle  that  the  University  is  to  be  devel- 
oped right  here  upon  the  soil  on  which  it  is  planted  —  that 
it  is  to  have  a  regular  growth  like  a  tree,  and  is  not  made 
like  a  house  —  has  been  accepted  as  a  guiding  law  of  its 
administration. 

In  closing,  let  me  say  that  this  University  has  stood  forth 
for  the  past  generation  among  the  agencies  of  higher  culture 
as  a  sort  of  pioneer.  It  has  been  a  seeker  of  unexplored  fields. 
In  all  Europe  to-day  you  do  not  find  its  like,  and  thirty  years 
ago  and  less,  in  all  America,  it  occupied  a  place  apart  from  all 
others  in  its  advanced  position.  In  many  respects,  which  I 
need  not  enumerate,  it  has  led  the  way ;  it  has  been  copied  by 
others,  but  still  remains  the  real  original  from  which  they  have 
taken  their  new  departure.  Its  special  province  has  been  in 
the  line  of  exploration ;  it  has  been  constantly  inspired  with 
a  desire  to  push  its  banner  upon  new  territory.  More  than 
any  other  University  in  its  time,  it  has  been  inspired  with  the 
lofty  purpose  of  the  great  pioneer  explorer  who,  with  his  five 
comrades  in  their  bark  canoe  two  hundred  and  sixteen  years 
ago,  passed  over  the  waters  of  the  river  Huron  that  runs  at  its 
feet.  In  the  early  spring  of  1680  this  explorer  led  the  first 
band  of  white  men  across  the  lower  Michigan  peninsula,  skirt- 


42        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

ing  the  present  site  of  our  University,  which,  so  fully  exempli- 
fies the  spirit  of  pioneer  conquest  by  which  he  was  animated.  I 
would  like  to  see  on  the  University  campus  a  suitable  monument 
erected  to  the  memory  of  La  Salle,  the  greatest  of  all  Ameri- 
can discoverers  since  Columbus,  not  only  because  he  spent 
seven  months  of  his  valuable  life  within  the  borders  of  our 
State,  but  still  more  because  he  represents  the  genius  of  the 
University  in  the  unconquerable  resolution  by  which  he  sought 
regions  unknown.  As  Search  for  Truth  has  been  so  impres- 
sively shown  by  Lessing  to  be  far  more  worthy  of  our  desire 
than  Truth  itself,  so,  when  the  statues  of  other  distinguished 
men  shall  adorn  the  University  grounds,  let  there  be  among 
them  a  remembrance  of  the  renowned  explorer  of  the  Huron, 
which,  like  the  Cam,  the  Isis,  the  Seine,  and  other  rivers  of 
the  Old  World,  is  entitled  to  notice  from  the  University  lo- 
cated upon  its  banks ;  and  all  the  more  since  this  institution 
reflects  in  such  an  eminent  degree  the  spirit  of  the  dauntless 
pioneer  who  utilized  the  stream  on  which  it  is  situated  for 
discovery  and  for  the  extension  of  the  area  of  civilization,  —  a 
purpose  for  which  the  University  so  distinctly  stands,  and 
which  gives  especial  significance  to  this  public,  and,  I  may  add, 
magnificent  tribute  to  its  honored  President  at  the  close  of 
a  quarter  of  a  century  of  faithful  and  signally  distinguished 
service. 

ME.   HAZARD'S  RESPONSE. 

My  sole  reason  for  standing  here  is,  that  I  am  a  friend  of 
President  Angell ;  and  that  friendship  runs  back  for  a  good 
many  years.  It  is  twenty-five  years  older  than  his  presidency. 
I  well  remember  a  day  in  January,  1846,  when  I  entered  the 
old  chapel  at  Brown  University,  and  took  my  seat  in  the  fresh- 
man class  for  the  first  time :  the  first  term  of  the  year  I  had 
not  been  there,  —  I  had  been  pursuing  a  partial  course  ;  but 
that  morning  —  a  cold,  dark  morning  —  I  went  and  took  my 
seat  in  the  freshman  class,  and  President  Angell  (the  gentle- 
man who  sits  here  now  was  not  President  then)  came  forward 
and  greeted  me  in  the  most  cordial  manner.  I  shall  never  for- 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  43 

get  the  kindly  spirit  which  animated  him  then,  and  that  same 
spirit  is  the  spirit  which  has  animated  him  always  through  life 
up  to  the  present  time,  —  the  spirit  which  has  made  him  a 
power  in  this  University  and  this  State  ;  and  I  wish  to  say 
that  that  genial  spirit  is  one  of  the  great  powers  which  we 
should  cultivate,  and  one  which  he  has  cultivated  so  success- 
fully. I  remember  very  well  that  occasion,  —  we  were  boys 
then  ;  the  remembrance  of  that  time  comes  over  me  ;  and  as  I 
look  back  with  pride  upon  all  that  he  has  done,  I  feel  a  pleas- 
ure in  shining  by  such  reflected  light.  I  am  proud  that  I  be- 
long to  the  same  State  that  he  did,  to  the  same  college  that  he 
did,  that  we  together  have  gone  on  through  life  for  these  last 
fifty  years  as  firm  friends,  and  hope  we  shall  continue  so  to  the 
end.  I  will  not  congratulate  you  on  what  he  has  accomplished 
here.  You  all  know  it,  you  all  see  it ;  but  we  have  here  in 
him  this  expression  of  that  genial  power  which  has  been  felt 
through  all  this  land  ;  and,  while  I  mourn  that  he  has  left  the 
State  of  Khode  Island,  I  congratulate  you  that  his  light  shines 
here,  and  hope  it  may  continue  to  shine. 

EX-REGENT  CUTCHEON'S  RESPONSE. 

You  will  excuse  me  if  I  stand  among  the  boys  while  I 
speak  ;  we  are  here,  —  the  boys  of  '61.  When  I  was  invited 
to  respond  on  this  occasion,  I  was  advised  that  the  sentiment 
to  which  I  was  desired  to  speak  would  be,  "  The  Duty  of  the 
Alumnus  to  his  Alma  Mater."  "  Duty  "  is  a  great  word,  —  one 
of  the  greatest  in  our  language.  Duty  implies  reciprocal 
relations,  —  that  which  is  due  from  one  to  another.  It  implies 
that  the  one  has  done  something  for  the  other,  for  which  the 
other  is  to  respond  in  duty.  It  is  first  cousin  to  that  other 
great  word,  "  ought."  And  now,  speaking  of  definitions,  what 
is  an  "  alumnus  "  ?  I  took  pains  to  look  up  the  definition, 
and  I  find  that  it  comes  from  a  Latin  word  meaning 
"nourished."  What,  then,  is  the  duty  of  the  nourished  son 
to  the  nourishing  mother  ?  I  will  say,  first,  that  the  great 
duty  is  to  love  her,  —  the  same  as  the  duty  of  the  natural  son 


44       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

to  the  natural  mother ;  and  strongest  and  most  potent  in  the 
breasts  of  the  alumni  is  the  sentiment  of  love  to  this  nourish- 
ing mother.  We  come  not  back  here  as  boys  come  back  to  a 
boarding-house,  where  they  have  paid  so  much  a  week  for  their 
hash  ;  we  come  back  as  to  a  fireside  and  an  altar.  And  what 
is  this  great  University  ?  We  heard  it  explained  this  morn- 
ing. It  is  not  these  grounds,  these  buildings ;  it  is  not  these 
trees,  although  we  come  to  love  all  these :  it  is  a  love  for  the 
men  that  have  taught  here,  for  our  classmates  and  our  college- 
mates.  That  is  the  University,  —  the  men.  That  is  what 
brings  us  back  here  on  these  annual  occasions.  So  I  say  that 
the  first  duty  we  owe  to  the  mother  is  to  love  her,  to  cherish 
her,  to  stand  by  her.  And  then  another  duty  of  all  the  boys 
to  the  Alma  Mater,  as  we  go  out  and  scatter  through  this  State 
and  throughout  the  nation  and  the  world,  is  to  support  her,  — 
to  provide  for  her.  We  are  her  children.  Is  her  roof  getting 
too  narrow  ?  Make  it  larger.  Let  us  see  to  it  that  this  Uni- 
versity is  cared  for ;  let  us  see  to  it  that  the  State  of  Michigan 
is  true  to  the  University  of  Michigan.  Another  duty  of  the 
alumnus  is  to  look  out  for  and  protect  the  good  name  and  the 
fair  fame  of  our  nourishing  mother.  Do  men  assail  her  ?  Do 
they  complain  of  the  taxation  necessary  for  her  support  ? 
Then  it  is  the  duty  of  her  alumni  to  stand  up  and  defend  her, 
and  say  that  it  is  from  this  fountain  that  the  stream  flows  out 
which  irrigates,  not  Michigan  alone,  but  the  whole  Northwest. 
That  is  a  duty  that  we  owe,  and  it  makes  no  difference  whether 
the  attack  comes  from  above  or  below,  it  is  the  duty  of  a  son 
or  daughter  of  this  University  to  stand  up  in  any  presence  and 
say  that  this  University  has  been  worth  more  to  the  State  of 
Michigan  than  the  State  of  Michigan  has  been  worth  to  this 
University. 

A  further  duty  that  we  owe,  my  sisters  and  my  brothers,  is 
to  come  back  once  in  a  while  and  see  the  old  lady.  Come 
back  once  in  a  while  and  look  upon  her  dear  old  face  again. 
When  I  came  on  the  campus  in  '57  as  a  freshman,  only 
thirteen  classes  had  gone  out  from  the  University.  She  was 
then  a  young  University,  and  she  cannot  be  very  old  now,  for 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  45 

I  am  a  good  deal  of  a  boy  still.  We  don't  come  back  here 
often  enough.  The  Dean  has  referred  to  the  fact  that  at  one 
time  1  had  the  honor  to  be  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Kegents. 
I  cannot  boast,  like  Eegent  Willard,  that  I  was  the  man  who 
brought  President  Angell  here.  I  had,  however,  the  great 
pleasure  of  being  one  of  those  who  gave  him  leave  to  go  out  to 
China  and  bear  the  name  of  this  University  around  the  world. 
Why,  my  friends,  of  all  the  Regents,  and  of  the  teaching 
corps,  there  is  not  a  single  soul  here  to-day  that  was  here  when 
we  boys  of  '61  entered.  They  have  passed  on.  We  are  all 
passing  on ;  and  it  is  your  duty  to  come  back  and  see  those 
who  remain  from  time  to  time.  When  I  first  came  on  these 
grounds,  there  was  just  the  old  north  college  and  the  old  south 
college,  four  professors'  residences,  the  old  medical  college, 
and  part  of  a  laboratory.  When  I  came  upon  the  campus  to- 
day with  my  youngest  boy,  who  graduates  to-morrow,  there  was 
very  little  that  I  could  point  out  that  was  here  when  I  first 
came.  And  although  there  is  a  great  swarm  of  young  children 
gathered  about  her  knees,  I  know  the  old  mother  is  glad  to 
see  the  boys  whose  heads  are  white. 

I  may  name  some  of  the  men  who  had  much  to  do  in  the 
making  of  this  University.  In  the  Faculty  was  the  stately 
Tappan,  now  buried  in  his  far-off  grave  ;  good  old  Professor 
Williams,  who  in  after  years  used  to  come  down  to  the  Board 
of  Regents  to  shake  hands  with  his  "  boys,"  as  he  said  ;  and 
there  was  the  accomplished  Frieze,  —  all  are  gone.  And  soon 
we,  too,  shall  be  gone,  but  the  mother  will  remain.  This 
brings  me  to  the  last  duty  to  the  Alma  Mater,  and  that  is, 
by  and  by,  to  remember  her  in  your  will. 

MRS.   TURNER'S   RESPONSE. 

I  am  reminded  on  this  occasion  that,  for  over  half  a  cen- 
tury, sons  of  Michigan  have  been  looking  back  upon  this 
institution  with  pride  as  their  Alma  Mater.  But  if  this  be 
true  of  her  sons,  how  much  more  so  during  later  years  has 
Michigan  University  been  a  fostering  mother  to  her  daughters  ! 


46       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The  feeling  which  they  cherish  for  her  is  not  one  of  pride  only, 
but  of  the  deepest  love  and  gratitude.  For  has  she  not  wel- 
comed and  cared  for  these  daughters  with  an  especial  favor  ? 
She  offered  them  the  long-wished-for  opportunity  to  prove  that 
they  could  cope  with  something  beyond  the  "  three  r's,"  the 
trivium  of  their  mothers  and  grandmothers.  She  has  spread  out 
before  them  the  vast  field  of  knowledge,  with  the  invitation  that 
whoever  would  might  and  could.  If  some  of  us  have  not  yet 
passed  the  danger-signal  of  a  little  learning,  long  ago  set  up  by 
the  English  poet,  it  has  been  our  own  fault,  not  that  of  our 
Alma  Mater.  And  when  she  has  bidden  her  daughters  adieu, 
and  sent  them  forth  into  life's  great  issues,  has  it  not  been  with 
a  blessing  most  tender  and  effective  ?  To  exorcise  any  ghost- 
like problem  of  the  waning  century,  into  the  ear  of  each,  as  to 
some  hesitating  Horatio,  her  spirit  has  breathed  the  command  : 
"  Thou  art  a  scholar,  speak  to  it."  Her  parting  gift,  the  well- 
earned  credential,  has  been  in  itself  an  open  sesame  to  posts 
of  usefulness  and  honor  before  hardly  dreamed  of ;  and  the 
very  enjoyments  of  life  have  been  made  richer  and  more  mani- 
fold by  reason  of  the  discipline  and  the  development  acquired 
here.  We  learned  (and  is  not  this  the  chief  object  of  study  ?) 
that  all  the  "  ologies  "  whatsoever  but  help  to  render  infinite 
the  possibilities  of  being,  and  that  true  education  ends  only 
with  life. 

Moreover,  doubly  fortunate  are  we,  in  that  it  has  been  our 
high  privilege  to  enjoy  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  the  inspira- 
tion of  a  living  exemplar  of  the  higher  education  in  the  person 
of  him  who  is  the  Presiding  Genius  of  our  University,  in 
whom  the  virtues  that  elevate  are  so  happily  blended  with  the 
graces  that  adorn,  the  Christian  gentleman  and  scholar,  — 
one  whom  it  is  our  pleasure  to  admire,  our  pride  to  emulate, 
our  delight  to  honor.  Skilled,  however,  not  only  in  the  inter- 
pretation of  the  printed  page,  but  of  the  human  as  well,  with 
what  wisdom,  and  tact,  and  charity,  and  kindness  has  he  ever 
guided  and  counseled,  a  master  of  persuasive  speech,  "  from 
whose  tongue  words  flow  sweeter  than  honey !  "  In  our  quest 
after  the  golden  treasures  of  knowledge,  what  guide  could 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  47 

have  been  more  impartial,  more  considerate,  or  more  skillful  ? 
Difficulties  have  vanished,  trials  have  been  overcome,  until, 
with  success  assured,  we  may  well  have  cried  out  with  the 
Greeks  of  old,  Thalatta,  thalatta. 


PRESIDENT   ROGERS'S  RESPONSE. 

This  splendid  occasion,  unique  in  the  history  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  has  few  precedents  in  the  history  of  the 
universities  of  the  United  States.  That  such  is  the  case  is 
due  in  part  to  the  small  number  of  our  institutions  that  are 
venerable  with  age.  But  it  is  due  in  larger  part  to  the  small 
number  of  men  whose  talents  have  been  sufficiently  command- 
ing to  make  possible  such  an  event  as  the  one  we  commemo- 
rate. It  has  been  the  good  fortune  of  but  few  to  serve  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century  as  the  executive  head  of  an  American 
University.  The  man  whom  we  honor  to-day  belongs  to  this 
galaxy  of  distinguished  men,  small  in  number  but  great  in  re- 
nown. And  now  we  enroll  President  Angell's  name  along  with 
those  other  names,  —  Nott  of  Union,  Hopkins  of  Williams, 
Woolsey  of  Yale,  Eliot  of  Harvard. 

When  a  man  has  lived  as  long  and  as  admirably  as  has  the 
President  of  this  University,  it  is  well  to  come  together  and 
crown  him  with  laurel,  and  strew  the  path  before  him  with 
roses,  and  speak  kind  and  appreciative  words  of  him.  We  all 
know  the  great  things  he  has  wrought  for  the  University  of 
Michigan.  Let  us  tell  him  so.  We  all  honor  him  for  what 
he  is,  and  for  what  he  has  done.  Let  us  tell  him  so.  We 
all  recognize  him  as  a  prince  among  college  presidents.  Let 
us  tell  him  so.  Flowers  are  not  all  to  be  reserved  until  a  man 
is  dead.  The  fragrance  of  the  flowers  is  sweeter,  and  their 
beauty  more  comely,  when  presented  to  the  living,  who  can 
sense  their  odor  and  their  loveliness,  than  when  laid  on  the 
casket  of  the  dead,  no  matter  how  lovingly  you  lay  them  there, 
nor  how  many  you  place  there. 

And  yet  those  who  know  President  Angell  can  understand 
quite  readily  that,  while  the  recollection  of  this  day  will  abide 


48       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

with  him  as  one  of  the  most  pleasant  of  all  his  memories,  still 
the  occasion  may  be  not  altogether  acceptable  to  him  because 
of  these  eulogies  to  which  he  is  compelled  to  listen,  in  which 
case  the  setting  of  this  day's  sun  will  bring  to  him  a  sense  of 
relief.  Now  if  this  is  the  way  in  which  he  is  disposed  to  look 
at  it,  we  can  only  say  to  him,  as  James  C.  Carter,  of  New  York, 
said  on  a  similar  occasion  a  few  years  ago  to  Dean  Langdell  of 
the  Harvard  Law  School,  that  the  fault  is  all  his  own  and  not 
ours.  He  easily  might  have  had  it  otherwise.  All  he  had  to 
do  was  to  have  discharged  his  duties  in  an  ordinary  and  per- 
functory manner,  and  then  the  tribute  now  being  paid  him 
would  have  been  withheld.  But  he  chose  rather  to  devote  his 
splendid  powers  and  attainments  to  the  building  up  of  this 
great  University  which  he  has  so  largely  made  illustrious  ;  and 
he  ought  to  have  known,  if  he  did  not,  that  there  would  surely 
come  a  day  when  the  sons  and  daughters  of  this  University, 
together  with  the  sons  and  daughters  of  other  universities 
also  indebted  to  him,  would  insist  on  paying  their  debt  of  ad- 
miration and  applause,  and  of  saying  to  him  that,  during  these 
twenty-five  years  that  he  has  been  the  guiding  spirit  of  this 
University,  "  the  skies  of  Michigan  have  been  glowing  more 
and  more  resplendently  in  the  great  firmament  of  learning." 

But  we  want  him  to  understand,  however,  here  and  now, 
that  we  praise  him,  not  for  the  success  he  has  won,  not  for  the 
name  he  has  made,  not  because  he  has  held  the  presidency  of 
this  University  for  twenty-five  years,  but  because  of  the  quali- 
ties for  which  he  is  distinguished,  and  by  which  all  that  he 
has  attained  has  been  made  possible  of  achievement.  Magnos 
homines  virtute  metimur,  non  fortuna,  said  Cornelius  Nepos 
two  thousand  years  ago,  and  we  repeat  the  words  to-day : 
"  We  prize  great  men  for  their  estimable  qualities,  not  for 
their  success." 

President  Angell  is  deserving  of  our  eulogy,  not  alone  be- 
cause of  the  distinguished  services  which  he  has  rendered  to 
the  universities  and  to  the  cause  of  education,  but  also  because 
of  the  eminent  service  he  has  given  to  the  government  of  the 
United  States  in  high  public  office  with  which  he  has  been 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  49 

signally  honored.  Now  and  then  in  the  history  of  our  coun- 
try a  distinguished  educator  and  scholar  has  been  called  from 
the  retirement  of  his  study  to  the  diplomatic  service.  Harvard 
can  boast  that  when  Webster  died  it  was  Edward  Everett, 
a  Harvard  president,  who  succeeded  him  in  the  office  of  Sec- 
retary of  State.  And  not  so  many  years  ago  a  Harvard 
professor,  James  Russell  Lowell,  was  sent  as  Minister  to  the 
Court  of  St.  James.  In  the  same  way,  Andrew  D.  White,  a 
president  of  Cornell  University,  was  sent  as  Minister  to  the 
Court  of  Berlin,  and  later,  in  the  same  capacity,  to  St.  Peters- 
burg, and  is  to-day  associated  with  the  honored  head  of  Johns 
Hopkins  University  in  the  Venezuelan  Commission,  on  whose 
findings  may  possibly  depend  the  peace  of  two  great  nations. 
The  University  of  Michigan  may  boast  that,  like  Harvard, 
Cornell,  and  Johns  Hopkins,  she  too  has  been  honored.  As 
Minister  to  China,  and  as  one  of  the  commissioners  who  ne- 
gotiated the  treaty  regulating  Chinese  immigration,  and  the 
treaty  concerning  commercial  intercourse  and  judicial  pro- 
cedure in  China,  President  Angell  reflected  credit  on  himself, 
on  the  University,  and  on  the  country.  Again,  in  1887-88, 
when  associated  with  such  men  as  Mr.  Bayard,  Joseph  Cham- 
berlain, Sackville  West,  and  Mr.  Tupper  in  the  Fisheries 
Commission,  he  bore  himself  in  a  manner  that  was  equally 
creditable  to  himself  and  the  nation. 

Time  does  not  permit  me  to  enlarge  on  the  valuable  ser- 
vices which  Dr.  Angell  has  rendered  to  the  cause  of  education 
in  the  United  States.  Speaking  here  to-day,  not  simply  as 
an  alumnus  of  this  great  University,  so  much  beloved  by  me, 
but  as  the  representative  of  another  University,  and  of  one 
not  subject  to  State  control,  I  wish  to  bear  testimony  to  the 
fact  that  there  is  not  a  university  in  the  West  that  has  not 
felt  his  influence,  and  is  not  ready  gladly  to  acknowledge  the 
value  of  his  services.  We  admire  and  applaud  him.  We 
congratulate  the  University  on  his  distinguished  leadership, 
and  hope  that  he  may  continue  to  lead  for  years  to  come. 
Health,  happiness,  and  length  of  days  to  James  B.  Angell  of 
Michigan ! 

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50        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

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"  Honor  and  reverence,  and  the  good  repute 
That  follows  faithful  service  as  its  fruit, 
Be  unto  him  whom  living  we  salute." 


PRESIDENT   SPERRY'S   RESPONSE. 

I  observe  that  the  speakers  at  last  have  passed  from  a  state 
of  probation  to  a  state  of  reprobation.  I  have  decided  there- 
fore to  postpone  my  remarks  until  the  centennial  occasion.  It 
seems  to  me  wise  to  do  so,  because  we  shall  need  the  remaining 
seventy-five  years  in  which  to  think  of  something  else  to  say. 
I  suppose  that  there  are  times  in  the  lives  of  us  all  when 
we  feel  that,  if  the  opportunity  had  been  given  us,  we  too 
might  have  managed  to  be  great.  I  have  sometimes  had  the 
thought  creeping  into  my  mind.  It  calls  to  mind  the  story  of 
the  Hibernian,  who,  upon  landing  from  an  ocean  steamer  in 
New  York,  saw  a  diver  coming  up  out  of  the  water,  and  said : 
"  If  I  had  thought  of  it  soon  enough,  I  would  have  come  that 
way  myself." 

There  has  been  chosen  to  the  leadership  of  this  great  Uni- 
versity a  princely  man,  largely  endowed  for  the  magnificent 
work  which  God  placed  in  his  hands ;  and  we  join,  my  brother, 
in  the  very  large  satisfaction  which  has  been  so  freely  and 
fully  expressed  by  the  representatives  of  education  of  the  State 
here.  Old  lady  Olivet,  to  be  sure,  belongs  to  another  parish, 
and  I  have  not  been  able  to  enter  into  every  thought  and  feel-, 
ing  of  the  occasion ;  still,  we  feel  a  large  satisfaction.  I  have 
heard  of  a  man  who  once  went  to  the  home  of  his  youth,  and 
asked  of  a  resident,  "  What  has  become  of  Smith  ?  "  "  Smith  ? 
Smith  is  dead."  "  Dead?  What  was  the  complaint?  "  "  There 
was  no  complaint.  Everybody  is  perfectly  satisfied."  And 
that  is  the  feeling  which  we  hold  in  regard  to  our  brother  An- 
gell  of  his  life  here.  I  have  this  to  say  on  behalf  of  the  col- 
leges of  Michigan,  —  that  President  Angell  has  made  it  easier 
for  every  college  president  to  do  right,  and  harder  for  us  to  do 
wrong.  We  are  indebted  to  him  as  a  leader  in  sound  learn- 
ing. We  thank  God  every  time  his  great  influence  is  exerted. 


THE  KESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  51 

Teach  the  youth  that  the  proper  function  of  our  young  men  is, 
not  to  play  baseball  as  well  as  it  can  be  played,  but  as  well 
as  it  can  be  done  by  a  scholar  and  gentleman.  We  are  very 
grateful  that  the  paternal  hand  was  recently  laid  upon  some  of 
our  young  brethren  to  teach  them  that  great  truth. 

I  have  sometimes  thought  that  if  we  of  the  smaller  colleges 
had  two  years  of  undergraduate  work  given  over  to  us,  you 
might  thereby  be  strengthened;  but  if  we  had  two  years, 
we  would  steal  the  other  two,  and  I  have  concluded  that  it  is 
wise  to  work  each  in  his  own  sphere.  The  Rev.  Alexander 
King  came  over  to  this  country  and  was  asked  to  speak  about 
church  polity.  Very  much  to  the  astonishment  of  the  people, 
he  took  ground  in  favor  of  independency.  He  said  that  he 
had  in  his  parish  a  man  and  wife  who,  though  very  good  peo- 
ple, would  frequently  get  mad  at  each  other  and  not  speak  for 
two  or  three  days.  During  one  of  these  periods  of  silence, 
Patrick  sat  on  one  side  of  the  fireplace  smoking  his  pipe; 
Bridget  sat  on  the  other  side  of  the  fireplace  smoking  her 
pipe.  Between  them  the  cat  and  the  dog  were  quietly  sleep- 
ing. Bridget,  after  contemplating  the  dog  and  cat  for  some 
moments,  remarked :  "  Patrick,  don't  you  think  we  ought  to 
learn  a  lesson  from  these  brute  beasts,  living  so  loving  to- 
gether?" "  Yes,"  said  Patrick,  "but  just  tie  them  together 
and  see  what  they  '11  do." 

As  long  as  we  go  our  own  way,  we  live  in  great  peace  j  but 
the  catholicity  of  spirit  and  the  wisdom  which  stand  at  the  head 
of  this  great  University  are  an  inspiration  to  every  one  who 
works  in  humbler  spheres  of  life.  The  advice  which  we  give 
to  our  honored  brother  this  afternoon  is  to  run  onward  in  that 
same  Christian  course  in  which  God  has  guided  him  for  the 
last  quarter  of  a  century. 


52        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 


PRESIDENT  HARPER'S   RESPONSE, 

This  has  been  a  day  of  reminiscences.  The  reminiscences 
have  been  given  very  largely,  however,  by  those  who  have  been 
on  the  inside  of  the  University.  Will  you  allow  me,  an  out- 
sider, for  the  moment  to  continue  along  the  same  line  ?  I  do 
this  because  I  am  persuaded  that  my  case  is  a  typical  case, 
and  that  there  are  thousands  who  have  come  into  connection 
with  President  Angell  indirectly  for  whom  a  word  should  be 
spoken  here  to-day. 

I  remember,  just  about  the  time  when  President  Angell 
came  to  Ann  Arbor,  that  my  father,  a  trustee  of  an  Ohio  col- 
lege, put  into  my  hands  the  catalogue  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  and  told  me  that  this  institution  was  one  of  the  great- 
est institutions  in  all  the  West.  I  remember  how  I  studied  that 
catalogue.  That  was  twenty-five  years  ago.  I  remember  how, 
five  years  later,  when  I  began  my  work  as  a  teacher,  Provi- 
dence placed  me  in  close  connection  with  a  graduate  of  the 
first  class  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  —  Fletcher  O.  Marsh. 
His  influence  upon  me  was  very  great,  not  only  then,  but  for 
twenty  years.  I  remember  how,  five  years  later,  I  found  my- 
self as  a  colleague  of  another  man  who  had  served  long  ser- 
vice, and  whose  one  mistake  in  life  was  that  he  left  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan.  I  remember  having  my  first  interview 
with  President  Angell  when  we  met  in  New  York.  I  remem- 
ber, only  five  years  ago,  when  the  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago 
invited  the  representatives  of  the  universities  about  Chicago, 
that  President  Angell  spoke  words  of  warm  welcome  to  those 
who  were  coming  from  the  East  to  the  West.  I  remember  also 
that  it  was  in  the  city  of  Ann  Arbor,  while  doing  service,  that 
I  formally  accepted  the  Presidency  of  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago. These  are  reminiscences  of  one  entirely  on  the  outside, 
but  it  shows  that  many  have  been  brought  into  close  relation 
with  the  University  of  Michigan  who  have  never  been  mem- 
bers of  the  University. 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  bringing  to  President  Augell  the 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE   DINNER.  53 

greetings  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  —  the  greetings  of  those 
who  are  there  to-day  as  students  in  the  University  doing  grad- 
uate work,  who  have  come  from  this  University.  The  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  has  sent  more  to  ours  than  any,  except  Har- 
vard, for  graduate  work.  I  may  also  bring  the  greetings  of 
your  alumni  in  Chicago,  who  are  helping  to  make  the  city  of 
Chicago  what  it  is  to-day,  —  men  whom  you  should  visit,  men 
who  should  help  the  University  of  Michigan. 

I  should  like  to  tell  you  some  of  the  impressions  which  we 
have  of  your  president.  It  has  been  my  privilege  to  be  con- 
nected with  several  faculties,  and  I  think  that  the  impression 
prevails  most  generally  that  there  is  no  president  of  an  insti- 
tution in  the  United  States  who  has  had  such  close  relation- 
ship with  the  members  of  his  faculty  as  the  President  of  the 
University  of  Michigan.  The  presidency  of  a  university  is  a 
delicate  position.  It  is  difficult  oftentimes  to  maintain  close 
and  friendly  relations  with  all  members  of  the  faculty.  I 
would  hardly  dare  say  it,  and  yet  I  am  almost  inclined  to 
believe  that  to  do  so  is  the  exception  and  not  the  rule.  It  is 
sometimes  said  that  a  university  president  —  a  college  presi- 
dent —  is  not  sincere  ;  that,  to  put  it  plainly,  it  is  very  diffi- 
cult for  him  always  to  speak  the  truth.  It  is  said  among 
students  and  among  faculties  that  of  all  men  the  president 
of  a  university  has  the  greatest  difficulty  always  to  maintain 
a  reputation  for  veracity.  There  are  reasons  for  this.  It  is 
very  easy  for  the  professor  who  consults  the  president  to  read 
into  the  words  of  the  president  the  thoughts  of  his  own  heart ; 
and  when  matters  are  not  as  he  would  have  them,  the  presi- 
dent has  lied.  The  one  characteristic  spoken  of  most  fre- 
quently in  outside  circles  is  the  absolute  sincerity  of  President 
Angell ;  and  there  has  been  perhaps  no  other  characteristic 
which  has  been  manifested  so  clearly  and  so  evidently,  unless 
it  is  that  other  of  which  mention  has  been  made  so  many  times 
to-day,  —  his  ability  to  accommodate  himself  to  the  situation. 

There  are  many  other  words  which  I  could  wish  the  oppor- 
tunity to  utter,  but  in  closing  may  I  appeal  to  you  who  rep- 
resent the  State  of  Michigan  to  do  for  this  noble  institution 


54       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

what  needs  to  be  done?  Adopt  as  the  motto  of  life  the  words 
which  were  uttered  a  few  minutes  ago  by  the  representative 
of  the  alumni,  —  the  work  of  serving  this  institution,  which  is 
the  glory  of  the  State,  which  has  done  more  for  the  State  than 
the  State  has  done  for  it.  Who  can  measure  the  magnitude 
of  the  work  ?  Who  can  estimate  what  it  will  mean  fifty  years 
or  one  hundred  years  from  now  ?  And  for  this,  as  we  have 
said  in  our  hearts  so  many  times  to-day,  the  State  of  Michi- 
gan, the  United  States,  the  cause  of  education  in  general,  is 
indebted  most  largely  to  the  man  in  whose  honor  we  have 
gathered.  May  he  have  long  life,  and  may  he  have  thousands 
of  men  who  will  stand  by  to  hold  up  his  hand  ;  may  he  come 
to  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  secure  from  that  city  some  of  the 
many  millions  of  dollars  that  ought  to  be  devoted  to  the  cause 
of  education !  Let  him  come,  and  we  shall  do  all  for  him  that 
can  be  done  —  for  an  outsider. 


MR.   DICKINSON'S  RESPONSE. 

I  rise  to  make  a  very  simple  and  brief  announcement, 
which  we  trust  may  be  a  small  but  pleasurable  surprise  to 
President  Angell  and  the  many  who  are  gathered  here  on  this 
occasion.  But  a  comparatively  short  time  ago,  some  good 
citizens  of  Michigan  who  are  not  alumni,  like  my  friend  who 
sits  next  me  here  [Mr.  Dexter  M.  Ferry] ,  some  alumni  who 
are  not  citizens  of  Michigan,  and  some  alumni  who  are,  took 
counsel  together  to  devise  some  expression  of  their  admiration 
and  regard  and  their  affection  for  the  great  educator,  the  great 
American,  the  scholar,  statesman,  who  presides  over  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan.  In  arriving  at  what  should  be  done 
within  the  time  at  our  command,  we  consulted  with  the  Dean 
of  the  Literary  Department.  He  said  that  no  testimonial,  he 
believed,  would  be  acceptable  to  President  Angell  that  was 
not  laid  at  the  feet  of  his  mistress,  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan. And  he  said  he  thought  that  that  would  please  the 
President  best  which  would  establish  some  sort  of  a  small 
fund  for  the  benefit  of  the  University,  and  the  Dean  suggested 


THE  RESPONSES  AT  THE  DINNER.  55 

that  it  be  a  fellowship  possibly,  to  be  called  "  The  President 
Angell  Fellowship."  He  advised  us  that  the  smallest  sum  re- 
quired for  this  purpose  would  be  ten  thousand  dollars.  There 
has  been  no  canvassing  done,  no  soliciting  done,  no  publicity 
about  the  matter ;  but,  I  am  pleased  to  say  that,  although  times 
are  hard,  although  we  have  not  in  copper-producing  Michigan 
the  restoration  of  the  old  copper  cent  with  free  coinage  of 
copper,  yet  we  passed,  —  without  solicitation  bear  in  mind,  and 
without  canvassing,  —  we  passed  the  ten-thousand-dollar  mark 
some  time  since ;  and  we  are  asking  now  to  retain  our  sub- 
scription list,  with  the  ten  thousand  dollars  and  upwards  al- 
ready subscribed,  until  we  can  double  it,  nay,  while  we  try  to 
treble  it  and  quadruple  it,  for  the  purpose  of  creating  an  en- 
dowment worthy  of  this  rare  man  of  forceful  character,  learned 
mind,  and  sweet  spirit  whom  we  honor  to-day. 

PROFESSOR  WRIGHT'S  RESPONSE. 

It  is  a  satisfaction  to  know  that  in  one  thing  Michigan 
patterns  after  Oberlin.  In  the  inspiring  music  which  we  had 
at  the  opening  exercises,  I  witnessed  the  effects  of  coeduca- 
tion, and  Oberlin  introduced  coeducation  almost  a  generation 
before  it  was  introduced  here.  The  success  of  coeducation  in 
the  University  of  Michigan  has  been  largely  due  to  President 
Angell's  personal  efforts.  I  well  remember  when  President 
Angell  came  to  his  new  field  of  labor.  You  knew  what  you 
were  getting,  —  you  were  not  visited  by  an  angel  unawares. 
We  bring  to  you  the  congratulations  of  Oberlin  for  the  suc- 
cessful completion  of  this  quarter  century  of  President  Angell's 
work. 

MR.   WRIGHT'S  RESPONSE. 

This  is  a  day  of  fond  recollections  for  the  Class  of  '71. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  to-day  we  passed  from  the  halls  of  this 
University ;  twenty-five  years  ago  President  Angell  was  in- 
augurated. To  us  he  was  a  stranger,  but  after  listening  to 
the  magic  of  his  inaugural  address  we  felt  that  the  future  of  the 


56        PEESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

University  was  secure.  During  the  twenty-five  years  that 
have  elapsed,  it  has  not  been  necessary  for  the  Class  of  '71  to 
return  to  the  University  in  order  to  know  that  it  was  great 
and  prosperous ;  for  wherever  we  have  been,  we  have  found 
graduates  of  this  institution  filling  places  of  honor  and  trust 
in  every  corner  of  this  broad  land,  in  the  seats  of  learning,  on 
the  bench,  at  the  bar,  and  in  every  field  of  human  effort.  On 
coming  back  to  the  University  we  are  amazed.  When  we 
look  around  us  and  see  the  grand  development  of  the  last 
twenty-five  years,  it  fills  us  with  new  zeal  for  higher  education. 
To  us  President  Angell  is  no  longer  a  stranger ;  he  receives 
from  us  our  heartfelt  thanks  for  the  great  work  that  he  has 
been  so  largely  instrumental  in  carrying  forward. 


CONGRATULATORY  LETTERS  AND   TELE- 
GRAMS. 


FEOM  a  large  body  of  letters  and  dispatches  received  by 
President  Angell,  by  the  Chairman  of  the  General  Committee, 
and  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Invitations,  many 
of  which  Tfere  of  a  private  and  personal  character,  the  follow- 
ing portions  have  been  selected  for  printing  by  the  Committee 
on  Publication,  to  whose  direction  the  whole  matter  was  en- 
trusted. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   LOUDON. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  TORONTO,  June  16,  1896. 

I  regret  very  sincerely  that  unavoidable  engagements  here  render 
it  impossible  for  me  to  be  present  at  the  anniversary  celebration  in 
honor  of  President  Angell.  Permit  me  to  add  my  heartiest  con- 
gratulations on  the  auspicious  occasion  both  to  the  University  of 
Michigan  and  to  President  Angell,  for  whose  learning,  eloquence, 
and  administrative  skill  I  entertain  the  very  greatest  admiration,  and 
whose  personal  friendship  I  consider  it  a  distinguished  honor  to  enjoy. 

J.  LOUDON. 

CABLEGRAM   PROM   CHANCELLOR  SMITH,   OF  McGILL   UNIVERSITY. 

LONDON,  June  23,  1896. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  I  am  unable  to  attend  the  celebration  of 
President  James  Burrill  Angell  to-morrow.  McGill  University  sends 
cordial  greetings. 


DONALD  SMITH. 


FROM   PRESIDENT   HYDE. 


BOWDOIN  COLLEGE,  BRUNSWICK,  ME., 
June  6,  1896. 

President  Hyde  congratulates  the  Eegents  and  Senate  of  the  Uni- 
versity upon  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of  Dr. 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


58       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Angell,  —  a  presidency  which  ranks  with  that  of  President  Eliot  as 
among  the  most  important  contributions  thus  far  made  to  the  cause 
of  higher  education  in  America,  —  and  regrets  that  the  coincidence 
of  the  celebration  and  the  Bowdoin  Commencement  prevents  him 
from  being  present. 

FROM  PRESIDENT  BUCKHAM. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  VERMONT,  BURLINGTON, 
June  13,  1896. 

It  would  be  a  great  neglect  of  duty,  and  a  great  wrong  to  our  own 
feelings,  if  this  University  were  to  have  no  part  in  the  proceedings  in 
honor  of  one  to  whom  we  owe  so  much,  and  whom  we  all  so  admire 
and  love.  The  five  years  of  your  term  of  office  were  memorable 
years  in  the  history  of  this  University.  The  war  had  left  it,  in  the 
expressive  phrase  of  Scripture,  "  scattered  and  peeled."  Those  of 
us  who  stood  by  it  were  only  a  remnant.  You  brought  to  us  new 
life,  hope,  enthusiasm,  and  patient  energy,  and  from  the  day  of  your 
inauguration  we  all  felt  that  the  old  College  had  entered  on  a  new 
career.  Your  leaving  us  was  a  matter  of  deep  regret,  but  we  knew 
that  the  regret  was  mutual.  But  though  a  quarter  of  a  century  has 
elapsed  since  you  left  us,  you  and  your  work  here  have  not  been  for- 
gotten. On  all  public  occasions  we  always  couple  your  name  with 
those  of  our  "founders  and  benefactors."  We  have  followed  you 
in  your  larger  career,  academic  and  diplomatic,  with  interest  and 
pride.  We  join  most  heartily  in  the  felicitations  of  this  anniversary, 
and  we  wish  to  you  and  to  Mrs.  Angell  many  years,  not  of  dignified 
and  happy  repose,  though  you  have  earned  them,  but  many  years 
more  of  happy  and  beneficent  work. 

M.  H.  BUCKHAM. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   CARTER. 

WILLIAMS  COLLEGE,  WILLIAMSTOWN,  MASS., 
June  15,  1896. 

Twenty-five  years  is  a  very  long  time  to  keep  the  helm  of  a  great 
university.  I  should  like  to  come  out  and  help  honor  you  for  such  a 
prolonged  and  noble  work  as  you  have  done.  I  cannot  come,  but  I 
bid  you  godspeed,  and  believe  in  you  with  all  my  heart. 

FRANKLIN  CARTER. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  59 

FROM   PRESIDENT   CAPEN. 

TUFTS  COLLEGE,  MASS.,  May  29,  1896. 

I  regret  that  duties  incidental  to  the  Commencement  of  Tufts 
College  will  prevent  me  from  attending  the  celebration  of  the  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of  James  B.  Angell.  Please  ten- 
der to  President  Angell  my  earnest  and  heartfelt  congratulations  for 
his  long  and  brilliant  service  to  the  higher  education. 

E.  H.  CAPEN. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   SEELTE. 

SMITH  COLLEGE,  NORTHAMPTON,  MASS., 
May  19,  1896. 

I  regret  that,  in  consequence  of  other  engagements,  I  cannot  accept 
the  invitation  of  the  Regents  and  Senate  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan to  attend  the  celebration  of  the  work  its  honored  President  has 
accomplished  during  the  last  twenty-five  years.  I  do,  however, 
heartily  congratulate  them  upon  the  conspicuous  ability  with  which 
he  has  advanced,  not  only  the  interests  of  the  University  over  which 
he  worthily  presides,  but  also  the  interests  of  the  higher  education 
elsewhere,  so  that  many  other  institutions  of  learning  have  become 
his  debtors. 

L.  CLARK  SEELYE. 

FROM  PRESIDENT  HALL. 

CLARK  UNIVERSITY,  WORCESTER,  MASS., 
June  1,  1896. 

Mr.  G.  Stanley  Hall  desires  to  express  great  regret  that  other  en- 
gagements will  make  it  impossible  for  him  to  be  present  at  the  cele- 
bration of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of  James 
Burrill  Angell  on  June  twenty-fourth.  He  desires,  however,  to  con- 
vey most  hearty  congratulations  upon  the  leadership  among  State 
Universities  which  Michigan  has  assumed  throughout  this  remarkable 
presidency. 

FROM   PRESIDENT  WALKER. 

INSTITUTE  OF  TECHNOLOGY,  BOSTON,  MASS., 
May  28,  1896. 

President  Walker  very  deeply  regrets  that  absence  from  the 
country  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  June  will  prevent  his  attending  the 


60        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

most  interesting  exercises  commemorative  of  the  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  the  inauguration  of  President  Angell. 

The  occasion  is  one  of  deep  interest  to  American  scholarship.  No 
friend  of  high  learning,  no  friend  of  popular  education,  can  fail  to 
rejoice  that  President  Angell  has  been  permitted  to  round  out  this 
quarter  century  of  splendid  service,  not  to  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, but  to  the  country. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   MENDENHALL. 

WORCESTER  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE, 
WORCESTER,  MASS.,  June  10,  1896. 

I  regret  very  much  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  be  present 
at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency 
of  Doctor  Angell. 

Unfortunately  it  comes  at  a  season  when  nearly  every  man  en- 
gaged in  educational  work  is  imperatively  required  to  be  at  home, 
and  I  am  sure  this  fact  will  prevent  many  from  personally  joining  in 
extending  their  congratulations  to  your  distinguished  leader  on  the 
completion  of  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  splendid  service  to  the  insti- 
tution which  he  and  his  colleagues  have  made  the  foremost  of  its 
kind  in  the  entire  country. 

The  problem  of  the  State  University  has  been  continually  nearer 
complete  and  final  solution  in  Michigan  than  elsewhere ;  and  not 
only  the  people  of  that  State,  but  the  intelligent  public  everywhere, 
and  especially  all  concerned  in  the  educational  interests  of  the  whole 
people,  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Dr.  Angell  for  his  work  of  the 
last  twenty-five  years. 

T.  C.  MENDENHALL. 

FROM  PRESIDENT   ANDREWS. 

BROWN  UNIVERSITY,  PROVIDENCE,  R.  I., 

May  21,  1896. 

I  write  to  express  to  you  the  pain  I  feel  that  I  cannot  be  with  you 
at  Ann  Arbor  when  you  celebrate  the  rounding  up  of  your  quarter 
century  of  work  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

I  have  the  greatest  admiration  for  your  work  in  Michigan,  which 
has  done  so  much  to  render  your  University  what  it  is,  probably  on 
the  whole  the  most  influential  seat  of  learning  on  this  continent.  I 
desired  to  attend  the  celebration  to  testify  to  the  immensity  of  the 
good  you  have  done  for  American  education  and  high  citizenship. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  61 

I  beg  to  assure  you  of  my  heartiest  good  will,  and  of  my  desire  that 
you  may  be  spared  yet  a  good  many  years  to  continue  your  educa- 
tional service  to  America  and  to  the  world. 

E.  BENJAMIN  ANDREWS. 


FROM  PRESIDENT  DWIGBT. 

YALE  UNIVERSITY,  NEW  HAVEN,  CONN., 
June  16,  1896. 

Unfortunately  for  me,  the  day  of  your  anniversary  is  the  day  of 
our  Commencement,  and  for  this  reason  I  cannot  be  present  on  the 
twenty-fourth  to  congratulate  you  in  person  on  the  happy  completion 
of  your  twenty-five  years  in  the  presidency  of  the  University  of 
Michigan.  I  beg  you,  however,  to  accept  my  congratulations  as  I 
send  them  to  you  in  this  brief  letter. 

You  have  certainly  every  reason  to  take  great  satisfaction  in  your 
review  of  these  years,  and  of  the  work  for  your  own  institution  and 
for  the  cause  of  education  which  you  have  done.  Your  term  of 
office  has  been  a  long  one,  but  you  may  look  forward  to  the  coining 
years  with  the  most  pleasant  anticipations.  I  trust  that  the  pleasures 
of  memory  and  of  hope  may  be  equal  as  you  pass  through  your 
anniversary  season,  and  that  you  may  realize,  in  the  many  expressions 
of  gratitude  and  honor  which  come  to  you  from  your  former  and 
present  pupils,  the  rich  reward  of  your  life  as  a  teacher  and  admin- 
istrator. 

TIMOTHY  DWIGHT. 

FROM  PRESIDENT  LOW. 

COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY 
IN  THE  CITY  OP  NEW  YORK, 
May  23,  1896. 

I  am  exceedingly  sorry  that  the  date  set  for  celebrating  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  your  presidency  makes  it  impossible  for 
me  to  be  present.  It  is  a  personal  disappointment  to  me  that  I  can- 
not shake  you  by  the  hand  on  that  day,  and  thank  you  for  your 
services  to  the  country,  while  congratulating  you  on  the  splendid 
record  of  your  presidency.  I  am  sure  you  will  believe,  however,  that 
no  one  who  may  be  present  will  rejoice  more  sincerely  than  I  in  the 
happy  features  of  this  most  interesting  occasion. 

SETH  Low. 


62        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   MxcCRACKEN. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, 

June  26,  1896. 

I  send  belated  but  none  the  less  sincere  and  hearty  congratulations 
upon  your  completion  of  a  quarter  of  a  century  in  the  presidency  of 
the  University  of  Michigan.  The  twentieth  century  will,  I  believe, 
look  back  at  the  thirty  years  following  our  Civil  War  as  the  period 
of  university  organization  in  America.  The  narrow  college  handed 
down  from  colonial  times  has  given  way  in  this  period  to  universities 
which  rival  the  foundations  of  the  Old  World.  The  University  of 
Michigan  has  been  one  of  the  vanguard,  and  to  you  it  has  fallen  to 
be  her  successful  leader.  May  you  have  another  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury to  see  the  thorough  systematizing  of  university  work  throughout 
America  ! 

HENRY  MITCHELL  MACCRACKEN. 

FROM   PRESIDENT  TAYLOR. 

VASSAR  COLLEGE,  POUGHKEEPSIE,  N.  Y., 
June  12,  1896. 

I  cannot  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  your  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary, but  I  shall  be  with  you  "  in  spirit."  Be  sure  that  your  own 
graduates  are  not  the  only  ones  who  can  speak  truthfully  of  the  inspi- 
ration of  your  life  and  work  to  them.  Some  of  us  who  have  only 
known  you  in  later  days  are  the  happier  and  better  for  that  know- 
ledge, and  find  in  your  example,  in  your  work,  and  in  your  cheer, 
great  encouragement  and  inspiration. 

May  every  blessing  rest  upon  you,  not  only  in  these  glad  days  of 
universally  expressed  appreciation,  but  in  all  the  days  of  work  and 
care  which  may  follow,  and  may  you  be  long  preserved  to  us,  who 
value  you  more  for  what  you  are  than  for  the  great  work  you  have 
been  able  to  do ! 

JAMES  M.  TAYLOR. 

TELEGRAM  FROM   PRESIDENT  PATTON. 

PRINCETON,  N.  J.,  June  24,  1896. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  I  am  unable  to  be  present  to-day  at  the 
celebration  in  honor  of  President  Angell.  I  rejoice  with  the  Regents 
and  Senate  on  the  great  work  which  their  University  has  done  in  the 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  63 

cause  of  the  higher  education  during  Dr.  Angell's  presidency.  I 
congratulate  President  Angell  on  the  results  of  his  brilliant  adminis- 
tration, and  hope  and  pray  that  many  years  of  public  service  are  still 
before  him.  I  join  with  his  many  friends  throughout  the  land  in 
expressing  my  admiration  of  his  Christian  character,  and  my  cordial 
appreciation  of  his  eminent  public  service  as  teacher,  diplomatist,  and 
administrative  head  of  a  great  university. 

FRANCIS  L.  PATTON. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   SCOTT. 

RUTGERS  COLLEGE,  June  20,  1896. 

I  regret  extremely  that  family  cares  following  close  on  college 
duties  will  not  permit  me  to  be  one  in  the  multitude  of  those  who  will 
gather  at  Ann  Arbor  next  week  to  express  in  person  their  sense  of 
the  value  of  what  you  have  done  all  your  life  for  "  the  things  which 
are  more  excellent,"  and  particularly  during  the  past  twenty-five 
years.  Those  who  desire  what  is  best  in  education  and  for  the  land 
will  never  fail  to  recount  the  gain  coming  to  them  from  the  paying 
out  of  your  life  in  their  service. 

You  said  once  of  Rutgers  College  that  it  had  an  honorable  record. 
You  know  that,  founded  in  1766,  it  represented  one  of  the  elements 
which  began  the  making  of  our  country,  one  whose  influence  has 
been  quiet,  but  active  and  continuous,  —  the  Dutch.  The,  Board  of 
Trustees  at  the  meeting  on  Tuesday  last,  as  a  token  of  the  high  honor 
in  which  they  held  you,  voted  unanimously  to  confer  upon  you  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws,  —  the  best  gift  in  their  power.  I  enclose 
a  copy  of  the  act  as  it  appears  on  their  minutes. 

Pray  receive,  as  your  twenty-fifth  year  of  service  in  Michigan  is 
completed,  my  warmest  congratulations,  and  my  best  wishes  that 
your  years  may  be  many,  and  all  blessed  with  the  richest  blessing  of 
God. 

AUSTIN  SCOTT. 

\_Enclosure.~] 

Unanimously  voted,  That  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  be  con- 
ferred upon  James  Burrill  Angell,  President  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  in  recognition  of  the  great  work  he  has  done  during  the 
last  twenty-five  years  in  conducting  the  affairs  of  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  influential  institutions  of  learning  in  the  land,  and  of  his 
eminent  services  in  the  discharge  of  duties  in  the  high  offices  en- 
trusted to  him  by  his  country. 


64        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM   PROVOST   HARRISON. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  PENNSYLVANIA,  PHILADELPHIA, 
May  18, 1896. 

Provost  Harrison  regrets  that  the  exigencies  of  the  closing  term 
of  the  University  render  it  impossible  for  him  to  accept  the  polite 
invitation  of  the  Regents  and  Senate  of  the  University  of  Michigan 
to  attend  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presi- 
dency of  Dr.  James  Burrill  Angell.  He  begs  to  express  to  the  Re- 
gents, the  Senate,  and  the  President  his  sincerest  congratulations  on 
this  happy  event ;  and  to  enclose  the  expression  of  official  greeting 
from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

[Enclosure.] 

The  Trustees  and  Faculties  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
tender  to  the  Regents,  the  Senate,  and  the  Faculties  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  their  most  cordial  congratulations  on  the  occasion  of 
the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of 
Dr.  James  Burrill  Angell,  to  whose  learning,  wisdom,  and  energy  the 
University  of  Michigan  so  largely  owes  its  present  commanding 
position  among  the  institutions  of  learning  in  our  land.  May  Presi- 
dent AngelFs  life  and  health  be  long  preserved,  that  for  many  happy 
years  to  come  he  may  guide  and  guard  the  interests  of  the  University 
which  he  has  so  long  served,  and  promote  the  cause  of  that  higher 
education  to  which  he  has  consecrated  his  most  fruitful  life. 

FROM   LAFAYETTE   COLLEGE. 

EASTON,  PA.,  June  22,  1896. 

The  President  and  Faculty  of  Lafayette  College  send  their  hearti- 
est greetings  to  President  Angell  upon  the  completion  of  twenty-five 
years  of  such  splendid  service  to  the  cause  of  higher  education,  and 
regret  that  they  are  unable  to  be  represented  personally  upon  the 
occasion  of  the  celebration  of  this  happy  period. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   DROWN. 

THE  LEHIGH  UNIVERSITY,  SOUTH  BETHLEHEM,  PA., 
May  26,  1896. 

President  AngelTs  great  work  in  education  at  the  University  of 
Michigan  has  made  all  American  scholars  his  debtors,  and  I  rejoice 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  65 

in  the  opportunity  of  adding  my  voice  to  the  mighty  chorus  of  con- 
gratulation which  will  greet  him  and  the  University  on  this  happy 
day. 

T.  M.  DROWN. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   OILMAN. 

THE  JOHNS  HOPKINS  UNIVERSITY,  BALTIMORE, 
June  20,  1896. 

It  is  a  great  disappointment  to  me  that  many  circumstances  be- 
yond my  control  deprive  me  of  the  pleasure  of  being  present  at  this 
celebration. 

I  should  like  to  congratulate  you  personally  that,  notwithstanding 
your  arduous  service,  you  have  kept,  with  your  health  and  strength, 
your  good  spirits.  I  have  just  read  of  William  Samuel  Johnson, 
once  President  of  Columbia  College,  that  he  resigned  at  the  age  of 
seventy-four,  retired  to  his  native  village,  and  lived  to  enter  upon  his 
ninety-third  year,  "  retaining  to  the  last  his  vigor  and  activity  of 
mind,  the  ardor  of  his  literary  curiosity,  and  a  most  lively  interest 
in  whatever  concerned  the  welfare  of  this  country  and  of  the  Chris- 
tian world."  I  think  you  will  follow  this  example,  —  only  I  hope 
you  will  take  the  round  hundred  years,  provided  your  health  con- 
tinues. 

Then  I  should  like  to  congratulate  you  officially  on  the  success  of 
your  career.  The  skill  with  which  you  have  maintained  high  stand- 
ards of  education,  while  you  have  kept  in  close  touch  with  the  people  ; 
the  recognition  that  you  have  secured  for  the  State  of  Michigan ; 
and  the  important  services  which  you  have  rendered  to  the  country 
at  large  as  a  diplomatist,  give  great  distinction  to  your  career,  and 
secure  for  you  a  place  in  the  highest  rank  of  men  who  have  con- 
tributed to  the  advancement  of  American  universities. 

D.  C.  GELMAN. 

FROM   PRESIDENT  WHITMAN. 

THE  COLUMBIAN  UNIVERSITY,  WASHINGTON,  D.  C., 
June  2,  1896. 

•  I  beg  to  acknowledge  with  thanks,  for  the  Columbian  University, 
the  very  courteous  invitation  of  the  University  of  Michigan  to  be 
represented  at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
presidency  of  Dr.  Angell.  While  not  able  to  be  personally  repre- 
5 


66       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

sented,  we  beg  you  to  be  assured  of  the  deep  interest  we  feel  in  this 
noteworthy  event,  and  to  accept  our  congratulations  for  the  Univer- 
sity, and  for  the  distinguished  scholar  and  leader  who  has  had  so 
large  a  part  in  its  great  record  of  usefulness. 

B.  L.  WHITMAN. 


FROM   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF   NORTH   CAROLINA. 

CHAPEL  HILL,  Nay  18, 1896. 

The  President  and  Faculty  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina 
extend  to  the  Regents  and  Senate  of  the  University  of  Michigan 
their  congratulations  on  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniver- 
sary of  the  presidency  of  James  Burrill  Angell.  They  regret  their 
inability  to  attend  on  this  interesting  occasion. 

They  greatly  rejoice  in  the  extension  and  expansion  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   CANFIELD. 

Omo  STATE  UNIVERSITY,  COLUMBUS, 
May  20,  1896. 

Nothing  would  give  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  join  with  others 
in  extending  to  the  University  and  to  the  State,  and  to  the  cause  of 
public  and  free  education,  my  congratulations  upon  the  continuance, 
with  full  power,  of  the  work  of  Dr.  Angell.  His  labors,  like  his 
presence,  are  a  perpetual  benediction.  I  hope  and  pray  that  he  may 
be  spared  for  another  quarter  of  a  century  to  the  cause  of  higher 
learning  and  sound  training  in  this  country. 

JAMES  H.  CANFIELD. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   SCHAPMAN. 

DETROIT  COLLEGE,  DETROIT, 
May  16,  1896. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  the  Commencement  exercises  of  Detroit 
College,  which  are  to  be  held  on  the  same  day,  will  render  it  impossible 
for  me  to  attend  this  anniversary  celebration.  I  can  assure  you  that 
nothing  would  afford  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  add  by  my  presence 
to  any  occasion  which  does  honor  to  one  who  has  contributed  so 
largely,  by  his  learning  and  experience,  to  the  higher  educational 
interests  of  our  country.  That  he  may  be  preserved  to  us  ad 
multos  annos  in  his  present  field  of  usefulness,  and  that  the  institu- 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  67 

tion  over  which  he  has  presided  for  so  many  years  and  with'  such 
marked  distinction  may  continue  to  accomplish  in  the  future  the 
splendid  work  which  has  made  it  so  justly  famous  in  the  past,  is  the 
jubilee  congratulation  and  best  wish  of 

HENRY  A.  SCHAPMAN,  S.  J. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   KOLLEN. 

HOLLAND,  MICH.,  June  23,  1896. 

Hope  College  sends  greeting  to  the  University  of  Michigan,  the 
pride  of  our  great  State ;  and  we  most  heartily  congratulate  Presi- 
dent Angell  on  his  most  successful  administration. 

G.  J.  KOLLEN. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   JESSE. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  THE  STATE  OF  MISSOURI,  COLUMBIA, 
May  23,  1896. 

It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of 
the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Angell  on  the 
twenty-fourth  of  June,  but  I  have  an  engagement  at  this  time  which 
it  is  impossible  for  me  to  break. 

President  Angell  has  not  only  rendered  inestimable  service  to  the 
cause  of  education  in  the  United  States,  but  he  has  made  himself 
personally  dear  to  all  who  have  had  the  privilege  of  knowing  him. 
Under  his  administration  the  University  has  gone  beyond  the  limits 
of  the  State,  and  has  permeated  the  nation  with  its  good  work.  It 
is  fitting  that  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  this  noble  service  should 
be  celebrated.  I  regret  exceedingly  that  it  is  not  in  my  power  to 
be  present  and  help  to  do  honor  to  him  and  the  University  that  he 
has  led  to  greatness. 

R.  H.  JESSE. 

FROM   CHANCELLOR    CHAPLIN. 

WASHINGTON  UNIVERSITY,  ST.  Louis,  Mo., 
June  9,  1896. 

A  formal  statement  of  regret  that  I  cannot  accept  the  invitation 
of  the  Regents  and  Senate  of  the  University  of  Michigan  to  be 
present  at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
presidency  of  President  Angell  would  not  adequately  express  my 
feelings.  Imperative  engagements  will  require  my  presence  here  at 
that  time. 


68        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

I  wish  to  express  my  great  appreciation  of  President  AngelFs 
service  to  education  in  general,  and  to  that  form  of  education  repre- 
sented by  state  universities  in  particular.  The  success  of  Michigan 
University  has  been  an  example,  a  stimulus,  and  an  inspiration  to  all 
other  educational  establishments.  Indeed,  what  question  in  educa- 
tional circles,  or  what  advance  in  educational  matters,  has  there  been 
where  the  powerful  influence  of  Michigan  University,  represented 
by  President  Angell,  has  not  had  its  part  ? 

I  congratulate  you  and  the  State  of  Michigan  on  the  long  and  dis- 
tinguished service  of  President  Angell,  and  I  wish  for  him  and  you 
a  long  continuance  of  his  labors. 


W.  S.  CHAPLIN. 


FROM   PRESIDENT   SNOW. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS,  LAWRENCE, 
June  22,  1896. 

I  greatly  regret  my  inability  to  attend  the  exercises  in  celebra- 
tion of  your  quarter-centennial  of  personal  service  to  the  University 
of  Michigan.  Accept  my  hearty  congratulations  upon  the  distin- 
guished success  with  which  your  educational  labors  have  been 
crowned,  and  my  sincere  hope  that  you  may  be  able  to  continue  your 
benefactions  to  the  University  for  many  years  to  come.  Allow  me 
also  to  congratulate  Mrs.  Angell,  whose  constant  cooperation  has 
aided  essentially  in  securing  for  you  a  long  and  prosperous  adminis- 
tration. 

F.  H.  SNOW. 

FROM   PRESIDENT   BAKER. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  COLORADO,  BOULDER, 
June  18, 1896. 

I  regret  that  I  cannot  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Angell's  presidency.  There  is  no  university 
I  would  sooner  visit,  no  occasion  I  would  sooner  share  in  celebrating, 
no  man  to  whom  I  would  more  gladly  pay  my  respects. 

Michigan  University  has  a  great  history,  one  that  is  an  example 
and  an  encouragement  to  her  younger  sisters  ;  and  President  Angell 
has  been  a  most  important  part  of  that  record. 

Please  convey  to  President  Angell  from  the  Regents  and  Facul- 
ties of  the  University  of  Colorado  good  will  and  congratulations  and 

best  wishes. 

JAMES  H.  BAKER. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  69 

FROM   PRESIDENT   KELLOGG. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA,  BERKELEY, 
May  23,  1896. 

It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  at  the  anniversary 
celebration  of  June  twenty-fourth.  But  distance  and  duties  in  my 
own  State  forbid. 

I  congratulate  President  Angell  on  the  completion  of  a  quarter 
century  of  service  in  the  great  University  over  which  he  has  so  ably 
presided.  And  I  congratulate  the  University  of  Michigan  on  the 
continued  service  of  one  who  has  done  so  much  to  forward  its  inter- 
ests and  to  enhance  its  renown. 

MARTIN  KELLOGG. 

FROM  GOVERNOR  RICH. 

LANSING,  June  18, 1896. 

I  regret  that  circumstances  of  a  peculiar  nature  compel  me  to 
cancel  my  engagement  to  be  present  at  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
of  Dr.  Angell's  presidency  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  I  regret 
this  very  much,  as  I  had  anticipated  much  pleasure  in  attending.  I 
should  be  very  glad  to  pay  my  respects  to  Dr.  Angell,  not  only  on 
account  of  my  personal  friendship,  but  because  of  the  ability  which 
he  has  displayed  as  president.  During  that  time  of  service  he  has 
conformed  to  the  requests  of  each  of  the  political  parties,  who  asked 
for  his  services  on  account  of  his  peculiar  fitness  for  the  position, 
which  service  he  has  performed  with  great  honor. 

His  worth  has  been  clearly  demonstrated  in  his  learning,  in  his 
executive  ability,  and  in  his  tact  in  meeting  difficulties  during  his 
term  of  service,  wherein  he  has  seen  the  University  grow  from  a 
small  institution  to  stand  among  the  foremost  not  only  in  the  United 
States  but  in  the  world. 

I  desire  to  express  to  Dr.  Angell  and  the  friends  assembled  my 
sincere  congratulations  upon  his  being  able  to  celebrate  his  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  under  such  favorable  and  auspicious  circumstances. 

JOHN  T.  RICH. 

FROM   EX-REGENT   BURT. 

I 
MARQUETTE,  MICH.,  June  22,  1896. 

It  is  with  the  keenest  regret  that  I  am  compelled  at  this  last  mo- 
ment to  recall  my  acceptance  of  the  invitation  to  be  present  on  the 


70        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

twenty-fourth  instant.  It  is  an  event  in  which  I  could  participate 
with  unalloyed  pleasure,  save  for  the  vacant  chairs  that  must  be  set 
for  the  four  eternally  absent  ones,  Stockwell,  Estabrook,  Gilbert,  and 
Walker,  who,  with  Sweezey,  Willard,  McGowan,  and  myself,  con- 
stituted the  Board  of  Regents  which  called  Dr.  Angell  into  the  connec- 
tion with  the  University  that  has  continued  so  long  and  so  happily 
as  to  make  the  celebration  of  it  an  event  in  the  history  of  the  great 
institution  second  only  in  importance  to  the  Semi-Centennial. 

I  recall  no  act  of  my  life  with  the  results  of  which  I  feel  so  great 
satisfaction  as  the  vote  I  gave  Dr.  Angell  when  called  upon  to  choose 
a  successor  to  the  two  great  men,  Tappan  and  Haven,  his  immediate 
predecessors.  An  intimate  acquaintance  with  these  two  men  im- 
pressed me,  as  I  believe  it  did  the  other  members  of  the  Board  of 
Regents,  with  such  a  sense  of  the  responsibility  that  more  than  two 
years'  consideration  was  given  before  choice  was  finally  made. 

I  recall  with  interest  some  of  the  important  questions  with  which 
the  Board  of  Regents  had  to  deal  during  that  era  of  liberalizing, 
1868-76,  such  as  state  aid,  homoaopathy,  opening  the  doors  to  women, 
which  received  their  initiatory  settlement  during  that  period.  Always 
optimistic,  I  then  anticipated  a  rapid  growth  in  number,  position, 
and  influence ;  but  as  I  compare  the  then  and  the  now,  I  see  another 
striking  illustration  of  the  futility  of  forecasting  the  future,  as  re- 
spects my  own  loved  State  at  least,  in  its  educational  as  well  as  its 
material  development. 

Long  life  and  happiness  to  President  and  Mrs.  Angell,  and  a  con- 
tinuance of  the  relationship  so  fittingly  celebrated,  until  its  com- 
memoration be  written  in  letters  of  gold  upon  tablets  of  silver ! 

HIRAM  A.  BURT. 

TELEGRAM   FROM   EX-REGENT  GROSVENOR. 

JOKESVILLE,  MICH.,  June  23,  1896. 

It  is  a  great  disappointment  to  me  that  I  am  unable  to  be  with 
you  on  the  twenty-fourth  and  evidence  by  my  presence  the  respect 
and  esteem  I  entertain  for  Dr.  Angell  as  citizen  and  man,  and 
also  my  very  high  appreciation  of  the  great  value  of  his  services  to 
our  State  and  University  for  the  last  quarter  of  a  century. 

E.  0.  GROSVENOR. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  71 

FROM   EX-REGENT   JOY. 

DETROIT,  May  22,  1896. 

Hardly  anything  could  give  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  be  able, 
with  his  hosts  of  friends,  to  congratulate  President  Angell  on  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  splendidly  successful  administration 
as  president  of  the  affairs  of  the  University. 

But  I  have  now  for  two  or  three  years  been  compelled  to  decline 
being  present  at  public  meetings  even  in  Detroit,  both  from  a  partial 
loss  of  my  voice  and  from  my  inability  to  hear  speakers  on  such 
occasions ;  and  I  am  constrained,  reluctantly,  to  decline  attending 
the  meetings  of  this  anniversary.  But  I  do,  nevertheless,  congratu- 
late President  Angell  with  all  my  heart  on  the  magnificent  progress 
of  the  University  during  the  quarter  of  a  century  of  his  care  of  it,  in 
which  it  has  become  one  of  the  leading  and  great  universities  of  the 
world. 

JAMES  F.  JOT. 

FROM  EX-REGENT  WILLETT. 

PASADENA,  CAL.,  June  17,  1896. 

As  the  date  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  your  inauguration 
approaches,  I  am  reminded  of  the  situation  at  Ann  Arbor  during 
the  two  years  preceding  that  time.  Our  beloved  Professor  Frieze, 
as  Acting  President,  was  laboring  beyond  his  strength  in  the  duties 
of  his  position,  endeavoring  to  find  the  way  to  success  between  con- 
tending factions,  and,  above  all,  using  his  influence  towards  the 
selection  of  the  right  man  for  president.  The  undergraduates, 
especially  the  upper  classes,  were  exceedingly  interested  in  the 
situation.  As  an  illustration,  I  quote  from  an  article  published  in 
"  The  Chronicle  "  of  March  12, 1870  :  "  The  presidency  has  been 
vacant  since  last  June ;  it  has  been  offered  to  several  gentlemen,  but 
declined,  and  the  all-important  question  is  still  unanswered,  Who  is 
to  be  our  next  President  ?  .  .  .  No  weak  and  vacillating  man,  no 
man  easily  turned  from  a  well-considered  purpose  by  the  criticisms 
of  weak  minds,  no  man  who  depends  on  the  support  or  approval  of 
others,  no  man  without  a  just  and  high  appreciation  of  the  aims  and 
needs  of  the  University,  can  conduct  it  victoriously  through  difficul- 
ties and  dangers,  and  give  it  a  prominent  place  in  the  foremost 
rank." 


72       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The  impression  gained  ground  among  the  students  that  you  were 
the  man  best  prepared  to  fulfill  the  requirements  of  the  situation. 
Hence,  when  Professor  Frieze  announced  that  you  had  declined  the 
position,  there  was  great  disappointment,  which  was  changed  to  joy 
only  when  the  news  came  at  last  that  you  had  reconsidered  the  mat- 
ter and  would  accept.  The  Class  of  1871  was  especially  favored  in 
that  your  inauguration  was  fixed  for  the  date  of  its  graduation,  and 
that  the  inaugural  was  to  be  followed  by  the  presentation  of  diplomas 
through  your  hands.  Since  that  day,  my  thoughts  have  ever  turned 
with  interest  towards  the  University  and  with  gratification  to  your 
incumbency.  With  better  opportunities  for  judging  than  have  come 
to  many,  I  desire  to  say  now  that  the  wonderful  prosperity  which 
my  Alma  Mater  has  enjoyed  for  the  past  twenty-five  years  is  in  the 
highest  degree  due  to  your  distinguished  services. 

Allow  me  to  congratulate  you,  on  behalf  of  myself  and  the  alumni 
on  this  coast,  upon  the  successful  close  of  your  quarter  century  of 
service,  and  to  express  the  hope  that  you  may  be  able  for  many  years 
to  guide  the  University  on  its  forward  course. 

CHARLES  J.  WILLETT. 

TELEGRAM   FROM   EX-GOVERNOR   ALGER. 

DETROIT,  MICH.,  June  24,  1896. 

A  long,  happy,  and  continued  life  of  usefulness  to  you  !  My  best 
congratulations  upon  this  your  silver  anniversary  with  the  Uni- 
versity. 

RUSSELL  A.  ALGER. 

FROM   EX-SENATOR   PALMER. 

LARCHMONT  MANOR,  N.  Y.,  June  17,  1896. 

It  seems  now  impracticable  for  me  to  be  at  the  Commencement  of 
the  University,  which  I  much  regret,  —  the  more  so  on  account  of 
the  proposed  compliment  to  President  Angell. 

I  know  of  no  man  who  is  better  entitled  to  the  consideration  of  the 
people  of  our  State  than  he.  He  has  worked  for  many  years,  a  part 
of  the  time  under  the  most  discouraging  conditions,  for  the  good  of 
the  University,  which  he  has  brought  to  a  position  where  it  is  the 
chief  glory  of  the  State.  In  addition  thereto,  he  has  conferred  honor 
upon  the  State  by  the  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  his  duties 
in  diplomacy  at  the  instance  of  the  President  of  the  United  States. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  T3 

It  seems  fitting  that  our  people  should  emphasize  their  appreciation 
of  his  services  by  some  testimonial  of  an  enduring  character. 

THOMAS  W.  PALMER. 

FROM   EX-MINISTER   LOTHROP. 

DETROIT,  June  23,  1896. 

Though  I  must  have  known  some  time  ago  that  this  was  your 
twenty-fifth  year  of  service  at  the  University,  yet  I  was  really  star- 
tled when  I  saw  in  the  papers  this  morning  your  admirable  bacca- 
laureate. 

I  have  no  words  that  will  fitly  express  my  regret  that  I  am  not 
able  to  come  to  Ann  Arbor  to  pay  my  respects  to  Mrs.  Angell  and 
yourself  personally,  and  to  testify  my  appreciation  of  the  great  work 
you  have  done  in  and  for  Michigan.  But  I  am  really  unable  to  go 
anywhere  or  do  anything.  Only  with  great  difficulty  can  I  shape 
these  few  trembling  lines  to  thank  you  for  what  you  have  done,  and 
to  express  my  sincere  hope  that  you  may  still  live  many  years  to  pro- 
long your  useful  and  brilliant  work  at  the  University. 

GEORGE  V.  N.  LOTHROP. 

FROM   JUDGE   SWAN. 

UNITED  STATES  COURTS,  DETROIT, 
June  23, 1896. 

It  is  a  great  disappointment  to  me  that  I  shall  be  denied  the  pleas- 
ure of  personal  participation  in  the  assemblage  which  will  observe 
the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  your  connection  with  the  University  of 
Michigan,  which  you  have  honored  and  enriched  by  faithful  and 
eminent  service.  I  had  looked  forward  to  the  occasion  with  confi- 
dence that  I  should  enjoy  its  pleasures,  and  had  made  arrangement 
of  my  work  with  special  reference  to  the  occasion.  The  "unex- 
pected has  happened,"  as  always,  and  I  am  barred.  The  only  privi- 
lege which  circumstances  permit  me  is  this  expression  of  my  sincere 
gratitude  that  the  conduct  of  our  great  University  has  been  intrusted 
to  one  who  has  so  amply  demonstrated  his  eminent  capacity  as  an 
educator  by  the  rank  which  your  labors  have  given  to  it.  In  common 
with  the  thousands  of  the  children  of  my  Alma  Mater  who  hold 
you  in  grateful  recollection,  I  congratulate  our  State  and  its  noble 
University  on  your  position  and  labors,  and  sincerely  hope  that  you 
may  long  be  spared  to  honor  and  guide  the  cause  of  education  in 

this  Commonwealth. 

HENRY  H.  SWAN. 


74        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

CABLEGRAM   FROM   MINISTER   UHL. 

BERLIN,  June  24,  1896. 
Hearty  congratulations  to  University  and  to  you. 

EDWIN  F.  UHL. 

FROM    BISHOP   DAVIES. 

DETROIT,  June  16,  1896. 

As  I  shall  be  unable  to  be  present  at  the  anniversary  celebration 
next  week,  I  take  this  opportunity  of  telling  you  that  I  regret  ex- 
ceedingly that  I  cannot  in  person  offer  you  my  tribute  of  affectionate 
homage  and  sincere  congratulation  upon  the  completion  of  a  quarter 
of  a  century  of  service  in  your  exalted  position.  May  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  and  the  republic  of  letters  be  blessed  with  your 
presence  for  many  years  to  come  ! 

THOMAS  F.  DAVIES. 

FROM    BISHOP   GILLESPIE. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.,  June  17,  1896. 

I  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  courteous  invitation  to  be  present 
at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  presidency  of 
Dr.  Angell.  My  esteem  for  our  distinguished  friend  would  urge  my 
attendance,  but  I  am  unable  to  accept  the  invitation. 

GEORGE  D.  GILLESPIE. 

FROM   BISHOP  NLNDE. 

DETROIT,  June  19,  1896. 

I  have  received  your  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  celebra- 
tion of  President  AngelTs  twenty-fifth  anniversary  as  the  honored 
head  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  I  had  the  privilege  of  listening 
to  his  inaugural  address  in  1871,  and  unless  unavoidably  detained 
shall  be  present  on  next  Wednesday  to  join  with  his  many  friends  in 
extending  hearty  congratulations. 

W.  X.  NINDE. 

FROM   REV.   MARCUS   A.   BROWNSON. 

FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,  DETROIT,. 
June  23,  1896. 

I  regret  very  much  indeed  my  inability  to  be  present  on  the  joyous 
occasion  of  to-morrow  to  offer  my  word  of  congratulation  in  person. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  75 

With  your  hosts  of  admirers  and  friends  all  over  the  country,  I  re- 
joice in  the  magnificent  attainments  of  your  quarter-century  presi- 
dency of  our  University,  and  I  do  most  heartily  desire  many  years 
of  sustained  health  and  continuous  triumphs  in  the  cause  of  liberal 
education  to  be  granted  to  you.  Every  citizen  of  Michigan  and 
every  friend  of  advanced  scholarship  in  the  land  must  feel  himself  to 
be  beneath  the  obligation  of  unbounded  esteem  for  your  administra- 
tion of  the  great  trust  committed  to  your  care. 

MARCUS  A.  BROWNSON. 

FROM   REV.    RUFUS   W.  CLARK. 

ST.  PAUL'S  CHURCH,  DETROIT, 
June  16,  1896. 

If  there  is  one  thing  for  which  a  citizen  of  Michigan  who  has  watched 
its  history  for  the  past  twenty-five  years  ought  to  be  proud,  it  is  the 
distinction  that  the  President  of  the  University  has  given  to  the  State. 
What  he  stands  for  —  and  it  has  been  largely  his  achievement  —  has 
been  the  one  thing  in  which  this  State  of  Michigan  has  been  preemi- 
nent. 

It  must  be  noted  here  that  what  we  are  thankful  for  is  not  merely 
the  quarter  of  a  century  past,  but  also  the  years  to  come.  No  man 
is  qualified  to  register  to-day  what  President  Angell  has  done  for 
men  coming  upon  the  stage  of  action  in  this  State. 

RUFUS  W.  CLARK. 

FROM   REV.    WALLACE   RADCLIFFE. 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C., 
June  20,  1896. 

I  regret  very  much  that  I  cannot  be  present  on  Wednesday,  June 
the  twenty-fourth,  to  join  in  the  world- wide  congratulations  to  Presi- 
dent Angell,  and  to  wish  for  him  and  the  University  many  added 
years  of  still  enlarged  influence  and  success  in  demonstrating  for 
the  State  and  for  humanity  that  "  religion,  morality,  and  knowledge 
are  necessary  to  good  government  and  the  happiness  of  mankind." 

WALLACE  RADCLIFFE. 


76        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S   QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM   EX-PROFESSOR   WHITE. 

OFFICE  OF  THE  VENEZUELAN  COMMISSION, 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  March  14,  1896. 

The  tribute  you  purpose  to  pay  President  Angell  is  most  honor- 
able to  him  and  to  all  concerned.  He  deserves  it  well.  He  came 
into  his  present  position  at  perhaps  the  most  troubled  and  trying 
epoch  in  the  history  of  the  University,  and  into  a  body  of  professors 
and  alumni  and  a  public  at  large  filled  with  grateful  memories  and 
deep  regrets  for  the  great  man  who  really  laid  the  foundations  of  the 
University,  Dr.  Henry  Philip  Tappan.  Quietly,  and  without  the 
slightest  ostentation,  Dr.  Angell  took  up  the  vast  work,  and  soon 
showed  himself  fully  able  to  cope  with  all  the  difficulties  of  the 
situation. 

I  need  not  dwell  upon  the  admirable  qualities  which  fit  him  for 
his  post,  and  which  have  given  him  the  great  success  which  he  has 
obtained.  They  are  known  to  you  all.  He  has  secured  both  the 
respect  and  the  love  of  all  thinking  men  to  whom  the  University  of 
Michigan  is  dear.  Under  his  care,  it  has  far  more  than  realized  the 
most  sanguine  hopes  of  its  founders  and  early  promoters  ;  and,  while 
many  have  borne  a  noble  part  in  the  good  work,  all  will  acknowledge 
that  the  man  who  has  chiefly  inspired  and  led  it  during  the  last 
quarter  of  a  century  is  Dr.  Angell.  Both  in  administration  and  in- 
struction he  has  proved  himself  ideally  fitted  for  the  position,  and  he 
indeed  deserves  well  of  Michigan  and  the  whole  country. 

Bearing  as  I  do  a  deep  affection  for  the  institution  in  which  I  be- 
gan my  work  as  an  instructor,  which  has  so  largely  extended  the 
circle  of  my  cherished  friendships,  and  which  has  proved  of  so  much 
value  to  me  in  my  work  since  I  left  it,  I  feel  a  personal  debt  of  grati- 
tude to  him  whom  you  purpose  to  honor,  and  join  with  you  most 
heartily  in  this  tribute  so  well  deserved. 

ANDREW  D.  WHITE. 

FROM   EX-PROFESSOR   TYLER. 

CORNELL  UNIVERSITY,  ITHACA,  N.  Y., 
June  12,  1896. 

I  do  not  remember  any  public  event  in  my  time  which  seems  to 
me  to  have  had  in  it  more  of  the  eternal  fitness  of  things  than  will 
attach  to  the  University  Jubilee  over  the  completion  of  the  twenty- 


LETTEES  AND  TELEGRAMS.  77 

fifth  year  of  Dr.  Angell's  presidency.  I  am  sorry  that  I  cannot  be 
at  Ann  Arbor  to  share  in  all  these  rejoicings.  Certainly,  if  I  could 
be  there,  I  should  try  to  get  together  once  more  all  who  are  now  left 
in  this  world  of  the  company  of  men  and  women  —  members  of  the 
faculty  and  their  families  —  who,  one  evening  in  the  autumn  of 
1869,  were  assembled  in  the  parlors  of  Dr.  Frieze's  house  to  greet 
for  the  first  time  the  young  President  of  the  University  of  Vermont, 
then  just  arrived  on  a  visit  of  inspection  at  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, —  himself  often  spoken  of  at  that  time  as  the  youngest  and 
liveliest  college  president  in  existence,  a  description  which  I  am  in- 
clined to  think  is  applicable  to  him  yet.  I  shall  never  forget  that 
evening,  or  that  interview  with  him.  It  seems  to  me  as  only  a  thing 
of  yesterday,  that,  while  we  were  all  waiting  for  our  guest  to  come 
down  stairs,  the  noise  of  our  mingled  voices  suddenly  stopped  as  we 
became  aware  of  his  entrance  into  the  room.  There  is  no  doubt, 
that  on  our  part  it  was  a  case  of  love  at  first  sight ;  for,  though  he 
found  himself  then  unable  to  accept  the  call  from  Michigan,  yet  so 
strong  and  hearty  was  the  impression  he  made  upon  all  who  met 
him,  that  no  one  was  able  to  accept  that  refusal  as  final :  nor  could 
we,  by  reason  of  such  refusal,  find  it  in  our  hearts  to  turn  toward 
any  one  else  for  our  future  President,  —  a  fact,  by  the  way,  due  in 
part,  no  doubt,  to  the  exquisite  devotion  and  efficiency  of  the  brilliant 
scholar  and  beloved  man  who  was  acting  as  president  in  the  interval. 
Of  course  I  distinctly  remember  the  satisfaction  that  ran  through 
our  community  when  we  learned  that  our  patience  in  waiting  for 
him  those  two  years  had  been  rewarded  by  his  consent  to  come  to  us 
at  last  in  1871. 

In  one  respect  I  feel  somewhat  entitled  to  have  an  opinion  as  to 
the  men  who  have  helped  and  hindered  in  the  development  of  the 
University ;  for,  as  child  and  youth  and  man,  I  have  known  it  ever 
since  it  came  into  existence.  I  knew  the  University  in  its  stormy 
and  tentative  and  feeble  first  decade.  I  was  one  of  the  little  class  of 
freshmen  who  entered  the  University  in  the  fall  of  1852,  after  an 
examination  from  which  all  the  expected  terrors  were  removed  by  the 
professorial  philanthropy  of  dear  old  Dr.  Williams.  A  few  weeks 
later,  I  was  one  of  that  crowd  of  students  in  the  literary  department, 
then  numbering  as  many  as  fifty -five  or  sixty  men,  —  a  mighty 
host  we  seemed  to  ourselves  to  be,  —  who  welcomed  the  entrance 
into  the  Chapel  for  the  first  time  of  President  Tappan,  at  a  glance 
recognizing  him  as  a  man  born  to  command  and  to  be  obeyed. 


78       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Under  the  creative  touch  of  that  king  of  men,  I  saw  the  petty  col- 
lege grow  into  a  university,  —  the  first  successful  state  university  in 
our  country,  as  it  still  is  the  greatest  one  and  the  model  of  all  the 
others. 

Doubtless  the  decade  of  Dr.  Tappan's  presidency  was,  in  a  very 
striking  sense,  the  creative  period  of  the  University.  The  six  years 
of  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Haven  were  years  of  needful  pacification 
after  controversies  that  might  easily  have  wrecked  all.  Then  the 
time  had  come  for  a  new  man  to  appear  upon  the  scene,  wholly 
detached  from  all  the  feuds  of  the  past,  and  wholly  incapable  of  being 
the  occasion  for  feuds  in  the  future,  —  for  a  man  who  should  unite 
scholarship  with  common  sense,  experience  with  tact,  and  the  power 
to  work  and  to  organize  with  the  power  to  wait  patiently,  and  to  im- 
part to  other  men  the  spirit  of  harmony  and  zeal  and  faith  in  their 
work ;  for  a  man  who  would  control  and  guide  the  University  with 
so  steady,  kind,  and  wise  a  hand,  and  for  so  long  a  period,  as  to  give 
mature  outward  form  to  the  immense  latent  forces  in  the  University, 
and  consistency  as  well  as  strength  to  the  great  subdivisions  of  its 
work ;  finally,  for  a  man  who  should  know  how  to  draw  the  mind 
and  heart  of  the  noble  State  of  Michigan  into  permanent  affection 
for  the  University,  and  into  an  abiding  confidence  in  the  wisdom  and 
benignity  of  its  management. 

In  my  opinion,  this  has  been  the  essence  of  the  great  work  which 
James  B.  Angell  has  wrought  for  the  University  by  his  quarter  of  a 
century  in  control  of  its  affairs ;  and  as  time  goes  on,  and  the  true 
perspective  of  men's  doings  in  our  time  becomes  clearer,  I  think  that 
the  greatness  and  the  unique  value  of  his  noiseless,  modest,  steady, 
tactful  labors  will  be  still  more  obvious. 

I  may  not  now  speak  of  my  own  private  gratitude  for  his  official 
kindness  and  helpfulness  to  me.  I  must,  however,  be  allowed  to  say 
this :  I  have  been  fortunate  in  having  had  to  do,  as  student  and 
teacher,  with  a  line  of  strong  and  good  college  presidents,  —  Tappan, 
Woolsey,  Haven,  Frieze,  Angell,  Andrew  White,  Adams,  and  Schur- 
man ;  but  under  none  of  them  would  I  more  willingly  live  over  again 
the  years  that  I  have  passed  under  such  leadership  than  under  that 
president  who  is  just  finishing  so  gloriously  his  first  quarter  of  a 
century  in  Michigan. 

Long  may  he  stay  in  command  of  the  same  noble  old  ship !  Our 
congratulations  to  him  upon  his  success  are  to  be  exceeded  only  by 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  79 

our  thanks  to  him  for  the  wisdom  and  goodness  and  efficiency  of  his 
unrivaled  services. 

MOSES  COIT  TYLER. 


FROM   EX-PROFESSOR   ARNDT. 

SAN  DIEGO,  CAL.,  June  9,  1896. 

The  happiest  years,  in  one  sense,  of  my  life  were  spent  at  the 
University  of  Michigan,  and  while  there  I  learned  to  do  full  justice 
to  the  brilliant  executive  ability,  and  worth  as  a  citizen,  of  its  dis- 
tinguished president.  It  is,  therefore,  a  matter  of  sincere  regret  to 
acknowledge  to  myself  the  impossibility  of  crossing  the  continent  and 
by  my  presence  expressing  my  appreciation  of  the  value  of  the  work 
done  by  President  Angell,  and  the  hope  that  he  may  happily  live  and 
work  for  many  years  to  come. 

H.  R.  ARNDT. 

FROM   EX-PROFESSOR   GERRISH. 

PORTLAND,  ME.,  May  25,  1896. 

I  greatly  regret  that  duties  in  connection  with  the  graduation  of 
the  medical  class  in  the  Maine  school  will  prevent  my  attending  the 
celebration  of  President  Angell's  quarter  century  in  his  high  office. 
It  is  eminently  fitting  that  especial  notice  should  be  taken  of  the  event, 
and  it  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  one  of  the  multitude  which 
will  gather  to  express  their  admiration  and  regard  for  Dr.  Angell. 

FREDERICK  H.  GERRISH. 

FROM   SUPERINTENDENT   DUFFIELD. 

U.  S.  COAST  AND  GEODETIC  SURVEY, 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  June  22,  1896. 

Nothing  would  give  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  be  present  at  this 
celebration  of  one  whom  I  respect  and  esteem  so  highly,  and  who  has 
fulfilled  the  duties  of  his  important  position  so  well  and  worthily. 
Unfortunately  I  leave  to-night  for  an  extended  tour  of  inspection  of 
both  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  coasts,  and  I  therefore  sincerely  regret 
my  inability  to  accept  your  kind  invitation. 

W.  W.  DUFFIELD. 


80        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM   MR.    CHARLES   W.    DABNEY. 

UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE, 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  May  26, 1896. 

The  University  of  Michigan  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  fact 
that  Dr.  Angell  has  served  it  for  twenty-five  years,  for  it  is  largely 
owing  to  his  wise  direction  that  the  institution  has  attained  the 
position  of  the  great  university  of  the  American  people.  The  won- 
derful growth  and  magnificent  usefulness  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan is  a  matter  of  pride  with  every  friend  of  education  in  America ; 
and  every  one  will,  I  am  sure,  wish  that  Dr.  Angell  may  be  spared 
to  this  work  many  years  longer,  and  be  instrumental  in  making  the 
great  University  still  broader  and  better. 

CHARLES  W.  DABNEY,  JR. 

FROM   PROFESSOR  HART. 

EASTON,  PA.,  June  15,  1896. 

The  University  of  Michigan  easily  ranks  first  among  the  state 
universities.  That  this  has  come  to  pass  I  believe  to  be  due  in  no 
small  degree  to  the  wise  guidance  and  untiring  exertions  of  Presi- 
dent Angell. 

On  the  twenty-fourth  of  October  last  we  celebrated  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  Dr.  March's  coming  to  Lafayette.  These  celebra- 
tions are  good  for  us.  They  give  free  vent  to  the  gratitude  we  all  feel 
towards  the  men  who  are  leading  in  the  emancipation  of  humankind 
through  education. 

EDWARD  HART. 

FROM  PROFESSOR  STRONG. 

YPSELANTI,  MICH.,  June  23,  1896. 

As  one  who  had  the  good  fortune  to  welcome  you  to  the  State  and 
to  the  headship  of  our  growing  University  twenty-five  years  ago,  I 
rejoice  to-day  with  my  fellow-citizens  that  the  good  auguries  of  that 
day  have  been  more  than  realized,  and  that  you  are  yet  with  us,  in 
strength  andwigor,  to  carry  forward  and  consolidate  the  really  won- 
derful work  which  you  have  been  instrumental  in  accomplishing. 

E.  A.  STRONG. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  81 

FROM   PROFESSOR   HOLDEN. 

THE  LICK  OBSERVATORY, 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA, 

June  6,  1896. 

I  beg  to  thank  you  most  sincerely  for  your  very  welcome  invita- 
tion to  be  present  at  the  anniversary  celebration  in  honor  of  Presi- 
dent Angell,  and  I  deeply  regret  my  inability  to  be  present.  I  beg 
you  to  convey  my  warmest  congratulations  to  President  Angell  on 
the  noble  work  he  has  accomplished,  and  to  remind  him  that  the  Lick 
Observatory  has  shown  its  appreciation  of  scholars  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  by  choosing  four  of  them  as  astronomers. 

EDWARD  S.  HOLDEN. 

FROM   THE   LICK   OBSERVATORY. 

MOUNT  HAMILTON,  June  18,  1896. 

We  beg  to  congratulate  you  most  heartily  upon  the  completion 
of  a  quarter  century  of  distinguished  service  in  behalf  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  and  to  express  the  hope  that  the  University 
may  remain  under  your  wise  administration  for  many,  many  years 
to  come. 

W.  W.  CAMPBELL,  '86. 
W.  J.  HUSSEY,  '89. 
A.  L.  COLTON,  '89.1 

FROM   MR.    EDWARD    P.    ALLEN. 

YPSILANTI,  MICH.,  June  25,  1896. 

Unable  to  be  present  yesterday,  I  do  not  propose  to  let  the  occasion 
pass  without  conveying  to  you  my  heartfelt  congratulations  upon 
your  quarter  century  of  work,  fraught  with  honor  to  the  State,  and 
lasting  marks  for  good  upon  thousands  of  young  men  and  women 
who,  scattered  everywhere,  are  in  turn  bringing  credit  to  yourself 
and  the  University,  and  making  the  country  greater  and  safer  for 
the  training  there  received. 

Verily  "no  man  liveth  to  himself,"  and,  where  that  living  shapes 
for  good  the  hosts  who  have  passed  under  your  training,  you  have 
the  right  to  rejoice,  and  your  friends  also,  and  I  do. 

EDWARD  P.  ALLEN. 

1  The  absence  of  Professor  Schaeberle's  signature  is  due  to  the  fact  that  he  is 

now  in  Japan. 

6 


82       PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM   PROFESSOR   BIGELOW. 

CHICAGO,  June  15,  1896. 

I  am  sorry  that  circumstances  will  prevent  me  from  participating  in 
the  exercises  of  June  twenty-fourth,  but  I  am  with  you  all  in  delight- 
ing to  honor  our  noble  leader.  I  believe  there  is  not  an  alumnus  of 
the  University  of  Michigan  on  this  habitable  globe  who  is  not  proud 
of  the  President  of  our  University.  How  much  he  has  done  for  the 
University  of  Michigan  !  And  in  such  a  quiet,  unobtrusive,  modest 
way  ! 

President  Angell  deserves  all  the  honors  and  gratitude  that  the 
alumni  can  bestow  and  feel.  May  the  day  smile  upon  him  and  upon 
all  who  are  there  to  show  him  their  affection  personally,  and  by  rep- 
resentation of  those  whose  misfortune  it  is  not  to  be  present ! 

MELVILLE  M.  BIGELOW. 

FROM   MR.    B.    F.    BOWER,   GENERAL   MANAGER   OF    "THE   CINCINNATI 

TRIBUNE." 

CINCINNATI,  June  22,  1896. 

It  was  my  fortune  to  be  a  student  in  the  Law  Department  of  the 
University  during  the  early  years  of  President  Angell's  administra- 
tion, and  during  a  regrettable  period  of  university  affairs.  Circum- 
stances afforded  me  an  exceptional  opportunity  of  observing  the 
manner  in  which  the  high  and  difficult  responsibilities  of  the  presi- 
dency were  discharged  under  the  most  trying  conditions.  The 
splendid  ability,  delicate  tact,  and  diplomacy  of  the  president  im- 
pressed my  student  mind  as  profoundly  as  his  broad  culture,  deep 
scholarship,  and  statesmanship  have  impressed  my  more  mature 
mind.  The  twenty  years  that  have  passed  since  then  have  increased 
the  respect  and  admiration  which  I,  in  common  with  all  alumni, 
entertain  for  him. 

B.  F.  BOWER. 

FROM   PROFESSOR   BROWN. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA,  BERKELEY, 

June  21,  1896. 

I  greatly  regret  that  I  am  unable  to  reach  Ann  Arbor  in  time  for 
the  celebration  of  your  quarter-centennial.  May  I  add  my  little  word 
of  congratulation  to  the  many  expressions  of  remembrance  and  good 
will  that  will  reach  you  this  week. 


LETTERS  AND  TELEGRAMS.  83 

It  is  a  great  thing,  it  seems  to  me,  for  any  man  to  reach  such  a 
plane  of  life  that  even  his  casual  words  are  treasured  up  in  other 
men's  memory,  and  influence  other  men's  lives.  I  have  no  doubt 
that  there  are  many  others  who  recall,  as  I  do,  words  you  have 
dropped  at  odd  times  which  have  encouraged  and  helped  them.  I 
am  especially  glad  to  have  had  my  one  year  of  teaching  at  the  Uni- 
versity, for  all  that  year  I  was  learning  from  you. 

ELMER  E.  BROWN. 

FROM   MR.    LAWRENCE    C.    HULL. 

LAWRENCEVILLE,  N.  J., 
June  22,  1896. 

Words  of  praise  must  have  grown  dull  to  you  at  a  time  when  the 
whole  State  of  Michigan  unites  in  thanking  you  for  twenty-five  years 
of  noble  service.  But  Mrs.  Hull  and  I  do  wish  to  send  to  you  and 
Mrs.  Angell  our  most  sincere  regrets  that  we  cannot  join  with  the 
enthusiastic  graduates  who  are  happy  in  the  sight  of  you  this  week. 

You  know  that  we  do  not  need  to  tell  you  how  grateful  we  are  to 
you.  We  thank  you  with  all  our  hearts  for  the  great  service  you 
have  rendered  to  the  State  of  Michigan  and  the  cause  of  higher 
education  throughout  this  country,  but  still  more  for  the  personal 
inspiration  of  your  noble  life,  and  for  the  kindly  personal  interest 
that  you  have  taken  in  each  of  us.  You  would  not  be  the  ideal 
president  that  you  are,  were  it  not  for  that  gentle,  sympathetic  na- 
ture that  can  forget  the  larger  cares  of  the  institution  and  remember 
the  personal  needs  of  each  student.  It  is  for  this  that  your  old 
students  love  you.  May  God  spare  you  for  many  more  years  of 
fruitful  service  and  beautiful  life ! 

LAWRENCE  C.  HULL. 

FROM   DR.    HURD. 

THE  JOHNS  HOPKINS  HOSPITAL, 
BALTIMORE,  June  13,  1896. 

I  write  to  express  my  sincere  thanks  for  your  kind  invitation  to  be 
present  at  the  Augell  celebration.  I  wish  it  were  possible  for  me  to 
get  away,  but  it  seems  out  of  the  question.  I  know  of  no  more 
grateful  task  than  to  undertake  a  journey  to  Ann  Arbor  to  attest  my 
admiration  for  one  who  has  done  so  much  in  twenty-five  years  to 
build  up  our  beloved  University.  The  State  of  Michigan  and  the 


84        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

alumni  of  the  University  owe  him  a  debt  of  loyalty  and  gratitude  for 
his  abundant  labors.  I  hope  that  the  week  will  be  one  of  exceed- 
ing interest,  and  that  the  celebration  will  be  fully  worthy  the  notable 
event. 

HENRY  M.  HURD. 

FROM  PROFESSOR   ALFRED   SENJER. 

QUEEN'S  COLLEGE,  GALWAY, 
June  13,  1896. 

Professor  Senier  regrets  that  he  is  unable  to  accept  the  invitation 
of  the  Regents  and  Senate  of  the  University  of  Michigan  to  be 
present  at  the  celebration  of  the  twenty -fifth  anniversary  of  the  presi- 
dency of  Dr.  Angell.  But  as  a  former  student  at  Ann  Arbor, 
Professor  Senier  ventures  to  send  his  congratulations  to  President 
Angell  and  to  the  University  on  this  happy  occasion. 

FROM    PROFESSOR   WOODWARD. 

COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY 
IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, 
June  16,  1896. 

It  is  with  great  regret  that  I  find  myself  unable,  by  reason  of  press- 
ing engagements  here,  to  attend  the  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Angell.  This  regret  is  intensified 
by  a  deep  personal  interest  growing  out  of  the  fact  that  my  class, 
that  of  1872,  was  the  first  to  graduate  from  the  Department  of 
Literature,  Science,  and  the  Arts,  under  President  Angell's  adminis- 
tration. Every  member  of  '72  must  rejoice  in,  and  feel  to  some 
extent  identified  with,  this  celebration. 

Please  convey  to  Dr.  Angell  my  hearty  congratulations  on  the 
completion  of  his  first  quarter  century  as  President  of  the  University. 
May  he  yet  live  long  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  untiring  devotion  and 
labor  in  the  cause  of  higher  education  ! 

R.  S.  WOODWARD. 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 
^CALIFORWt 


REGENTS. 

LEVI  L.  BARBOUR. 
WILLIAM  J.  COCKER. 
PETER  N.  COOK. 
HENRY  S.  DEAN. 
HERMANN  KIEFER. 
FRANK  W.  FLETCHER. 
ROGER  W.  BUTTERFIELD. 
GEORGE  A.  FARR. 


JAMES  H.  WADE,  Secretary. 
HARRISON  SOULE,  Treasurer. 

THE  UNIVEKSITY  SENATE. 

JAMES  B.  ANGELL,  LL.  D. 
ALBERT  B.  PRESCOTT,  LL.  D. 
REV.  MARTIN  L.  D'OOGE,  LL.  D. 
CHARLES  E.  GREENE,  A.  M.,  C.  E. 
JONATHAN  TAFT,  M.  D.,  D.  D.  S. 
WILLIAM  H.  PETTEE,  A.  M. 
JOHN  A.  WATLING,  D.  D.  S. 
EDWARD  L.  WALTER,  PH.  D. 
ISAAC  N.  DEMMON,  LL.  D. 
WILLIAM  H.  DORRANCE,  D.  D.  S. 
ALBERT  H.  PATTENGILL,  A.  M. 
MORTIMER  E.  COOLEY,  M.  E. 
WILLIAM  J.  HERDMAN,  PH.  B.,  M.  D. 
WOOSTER  W.  BEMAN,  A.  M. 
VICTOR  C.  VAUGHAN,  PH.  D.,  M.  D. 
THOMAS  M.  COOLEY,  LL.  D. 
CHARLES  S.  DENISON,  M.  S.,  C.  E. 
HENRY  S.  CARHART,  LL.  D. 
LEVI  T.  GRIFFIN,  A.  M. 
RAYMOND  C.  DAVIS,  A.  M. 
VOLNEY  M.  SPALDING,  PH.  D. 


86         PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

HENRY  C.  ADAMS,  PH.  D. 

BURKE  A.  HINSDALE,  LL.  D. 

RICHARD  HUDSON,  A.  M. 

BRADLEY  M.  THOMPSON,  M.  S.,  LL.  B. 

ALBERT  A.  STANLEY,  A.  M. 

FRANCIS  W.  KELSEY,  PH.  D. 

JEROME  C.  KNOWLTON,  A.  B.,  LL.  B. 

CHARLES  B.  NANCREDE,  A.  M.,  M.  D. 

FLEMMING  CARROW,  M.  D. 

OTIS  C.  JOHNSON,  A.  M.,  PH.  C. 

PAUL  C.  FREER,  PH.  D.,  M.  D. 

JAMES  N.  MARTIN,  PH.  M.,  M.  D. 

NELVILLE  S.  HOFF,  D.  D.  S. 

GEORGE  DOCK,  M.  D. 

JOHN  W.  CHAMPLIN,  LL.  D. 

ANDREW  C.  MCLAUGHLIN,  A.  M.,  LL.  B. 

JOSEPH  B.  DAVIS,  C.  E. 

ASAPH  HALL,  JR.,  PH.  D. 

ISRAEL  C.  RUSSELL,  LL.'D. 

WARREN  P.  LOMBARD,  A.  B.,  M.  D. 

FLOYD  R.  MECHEM,  A.  M. 

JACOB  E.  REIGHARD,  PH.  B. 

THOMAS  C.  TRUEBLOOD,  A.  M. 

JAMES  A.  CRAIG,  PH.  D. 

ALEXIS  C.  ANGELL,  A.  B.,  LL.  B. 

OTTO  KIRCHNER,  A.  M. 

ARTHUR  R.  CUSHNY,  A.  M.,  M.  D. 

JOHN  C.  ROLFE,  PH.  D. 

J.  PLAYFAIR  McMuRRicn,  PH.  D. 

HARRY  B.  HUTCHINS,  PH.  B. 

THOMAS  A.  BOGLE,  LL.  B. 

WILBERT  B.  HINSDALE,  A.  M.,  M.  D. 

OSCAR  LE  SEURE,  M.  D. 

ROY  S.  COPELAND,  M.  D. 

ALFRED  H.  LLOYD,  PH.  D. 

GEORGE  A.  HENCH,  PH.  D. 

HORACE  L.  WILGUS,  M.  S. 

MYRON  H.  PARMELEE,  M.  D. 

FREDERICK  G.  NOVY,  Sc.  D.,  M.  D. 

GEORGE  HEMPL,  PH.  D. 

EDWARD  D.  CAMPBELL,  B.  S. 

FRED  M.  TAYLOR,  PH.  D. 

JAMES  B.  FITZGERALD,  M.  D. 

PAUL  R.  DE  PONT,  A.  B.,  B.  S. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  SENATE.  87 

CLARENCE  G.  TAYLOR,  B.  S.,  M.  E. 

JOSEPH  H.  DRAKE,  A.  B. 

FRED.  N.  SCOTT,  PH.  D. 

ALEXANDER  ZIWET,  C.  E. 

GEORGE  W.  PATTERSON,  JR.,  A.  M.,  S.  B. 

FRANK  C.  WAGNER,  A.  M.,  B.  S. 

GOTTHELF  C.  HUBER,  M.  D. 

ALVISO  B.  STEVENS,  PH.  C. 
JOHN  O.  REED,  PH.  M. 
WILLIAM  A.  CAMPBELL,  B.  S.,  M.  D. 
DEAN  C.  WORCESTER,  A.  B. 
FREDERICK  C.  NEWCOMBE,  PH.  D. 
WILLIAM  F.  BREAKEY,  M.  D. 


GUESTS  AT  THE  DINNER.1 


Ephraim  D.  Adams,  A.  B.,  '87. 

Mrs.  Ephraim  D.  Adams. 

Henry    C.    Adams,    A.  B.   (Iowa 

Coll.),  74. 

Mrs.  Henry  C.  Adams,  A.  B.,  '88. 
George  F.  Allmendinger,  C.  E.,  78. 
George  W.  Allyn,  A.  B.,  72. 
William  H.  Anderson,  LL.  B.,  '96. 
William  K.  Anderson,  A.  B.,  '68. 
Mrs.  William  K.  Anderson. 
Frank  D.  Andrus,  A.  B.,  72. 
Alexis  C.  Angell,  A.  B.,  78. 
Mrs.  Alexis  C.  Angell,  Lit.,  77. 
James  B.  Angell,  President  of  the 

University. 

Mrs.  James  B.  Angell. 
William  T.  Angell. 
Frederick  W.  Arbury,  A.  B.,  '83. 
Henry  W.  Ashley,  A.  B.,  79. 
Earl  D.  Babst,  Ph.  B.,  '93. 
Henry  B.  Baker,  A.M.,  '90. 
Floras  A.  Barbour,  A.  B.,  78. 
Levi  L.  Barbour,  A.  B.,  '63,  Regent. 
Harrison  W.  Bassett,  A.  B.,  '64. 
George  W.  Bates,  A.  B.,  70. 
Octavia  W.  Bates,  A.  B.,  77. 
Benjamin  L.  Baxter,  Ex-Regent. 
Samuel  W.  Beakes,  LL.  B.,  '83. 
Junius  E.  Beal,  B.  L.,  '82. 
Caroline  P.  Bell,  A.  B.,  '85. 
Wooster  W.  Beman,  A.  B.,  70. 
Mrs.  Wooster  W.  Beman. 
Emily  A.  Benn,  A.  B.,  '83. 
William  W.  Bishop,  A.  B.,  '92. 


Charles  A.  Blair,  A.  B.,  76. 

Frederick  L.  Bliss,  A.  B.,  77. 

Allen  P.  Boyer,  C.  E.,  '71. 

Alvah  Bradish,  A.  M.,  '52. 

Rev.  John  W.  Bradshaw,  A.  B. 
(Middlebury),  '69. 

Edgar  E.  Brandon,  A.  B.,  '88. 

William  F.  Breakey,  M.  D.,  '59. 

Mrs.  William  F.  Breakey. 

Frederic  F.  Briggs,  A.  B.,  '93. 

Hugh  Brown,  A.  B.,  '84. 

William  N.  Brown,  LL.  B.,  70. 

Mrs.  William  N.  Brown. 

Benjamin  F.  Buck,  A.  B.,  '93. 

Gertrude  Buck,  B.  S.,  '94. 

Henry  F.  Burton,  A.  B.,  72. 

Roger  W.  Butterfield,  LL.  B.,  '68, 
Regent. 

William  A.  Caldwell,  B.  S.,  '96. 

Edward  D.  Campbell,  B.  S.,  '86. 

Mrs.  Edward  D.  Campbell. 

Henry  M.  Campbell,  Ph.  B.,  76. 

Katherine  Campbell,  A.  B.,  '90. 

Robert  Campbell,  LL.  B.,  '93. 

William  A.  Campbell,  M.  D.,  '82. 

Mrs.  William  A.  Campbell,  B.  S., 
'92. 

Henry  S.  Carhart,  A.  B.  (Wes- 
leyan  Univ.),  '69. 

Flemming  Carrow,  M.  D.  (Colum- 
bian Univ.),  74. 

Thomas  T.  Caswell,  A.  B.  (Brown), 
'61. 

George  H.  Chaffin,  LL.  B.,  '84. 


1  This  list  is  not  complete,  but  it  is  believed  to  contain  the 
alumni  present. 


of  all,  or  nearly  all,  the 


GUESTS   AT  THE  DINNER. 


89 


Theodore  R.  Chase,  A.  B.,  '49. 

Dwight  B.  Cheever,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Noah  W.  Cheever,  A.  B.,  '63. 

Horatio  N.  Chute,  B.  S.,  72. 

John  E.  Clark,  A.  B.,  '56. 

Holbrook   G.   Cleaveland,    A.  B., 
'93. 

William  J.  Cocker,  A.  B.,  '69,  Re- 
gent. 

George  R  Codd,  A.  B.,  '91. 

Mrs.  James  H.  Coggeshall. 

Peter  Collier,  A.  B.  (Yale),  '61. 

Mrs.  Peter  Collier. 

Alvah  N.  Collins,  M.  D.,  '85. 

Mrs.  Alvah  N.  Collins,  Lit.,  '84. 

Charles  E.  Conley,  A.  B.,  71. 

Frances  C.  Cook,  B.  L.,  '96. 

Peter  N.  Cook,  LL.   B.,   '74,  Re- 
gent. 

Mrs.  Peter  N.  Cook. 

Charles  H.  Cooley,  A.  B.,  '87. 

Mrs.  Mortimer  E.  Cooley. 

Orville  W.  Coolidge,  A.  B.,  '63. 

Roy  S.  Copeland,  M.  D.,  '89. 

Mrs.  Roy  S.  Copeland. 

Nathan  D.  Corbin,  B.  S.,  '86. 

James  M.  Crosby,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Alfred  O.  Crozier,  LL.  B.,  '86. 

Byron   M.   Cutcheon,   A.    B.,   '61, 
Ex-Regent. 

Walter  A.  Cutler,  A.  B.,  '92. 

Joseph  B.  Davis,  C.  E.,  '68. 

Raymond  C.  Davis,  A.  M.,  '81. 

Mrs.  Raymond  C.  Davis,  Lit.,  '76. 

Harlow  P.  Davock,  B.  S.,  '70. 

Thomas  W.  Day,  LL.  B.,  '94. 

Elizabeth  W.  Dean,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Henry  S.  Dean,  Regent. 

Isaac  N.  Demrnon,  A.  B.,  '68. 

Mrs.  Isaac  N.  Demmon. 

Charles   S.   Denison,   B.   S.  (Ver- 
mont), '70. 

Don  M.  Dickinson,  LL.  B.,  67. 

Charles  Y.  Dixon,  B.  S.,  '87. 


George  Dock,  M.  D.  (Univ.  of  Pa.), 
'84. 

Martin  L.  D'Ooge,  A.  B.,  '62. 

Mrs.  Martin  L.  D'Ooge. 

Charles  L.  Doolittle,  C.  E.,  '74. 

William  H.  Dorrance,  D.  D.  S.,  '79. 

Edgar  M.  Doughty,  A.  B.,  '90. 

Henry  W.  Douglas,  B.  S.,  '90. 

Joseph  H.  Drake,  A.  B.,  '85. 

Andrew  S.  Draper,  President  of  the 
University  of  Illinois. 

Sidney  C.  Eastman,  A.  B.,  '73. 

William  M.  Edwards,  M.  D.,  '84. 

Charles  W.  Ellis,  B.  S.,  '96. 

Calvin  R.  Elwood,  M.  D.,  '94. 

Herman  H.  Eymer,  B.  S.,  '94. 

Delos  Fall,  B.  S.,  '75. 

Frank  C.  Ferguson,  A.  B.,  '77. 

Dexter  M.  Ferry. 

Byron  A.  Finney,  A.  B.,  '71. 

James  B.  Fitzgerald,  M.  D.  (Tufts), 
'92. 

John  H.  Flagg,  C.  E.,  '72. 

Frank  W.  Fletcher,   Ph.   B.,  75, 
Regent. 

Homer  A.  Flint,  B.  S.,  '61. 

Henry  A.  Friedman,  Ph.  B.,  '93. 

Eugene  K.  Frueauff,  LL.  B.,  75. 

Franklin  B.  Galbraith,  M.  D.,  '61. 

Frederick  L.  Geddes,  A.  B.,  72. 

Joseph  M.  Gelston,  A.  B.,  '69. 

Willard  C.  Gore,  Ph.  B.,  '94. 

Herbert  J.  Goulding,  B.  S.,  '93. 

Claudius  B.  Grant,  A.  B.,  '59,  Ex- 
Regent. 

Frederic  D.  Green,  A.  B.,  '92. 

Charles  E.  Greene,   A.   B.  (Har- 
vard), '62. 

Carl  Grosse,  LL.  B.,  '85. 

Dwight  M.  Guillotte,  B.  S.,  '96. 

Abram  S.  Hall,  Ph.  B.,  76. 

Arthur  G.  Hall,  B.  S.,  '87. 

Asaph  Hall,  Jr.,  A.  B.  (Harvard), 
'82. 


90        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 


Louis  P.  Hall,  D.  D.  S.,  '89. 

Francis  M.  Hamilton,  A.  B.,  '69. 

Mrs.  Francis  M.  Hamilton. 

Walter  M.  Hamilton,  A.  B.,  '94. 

William  W.  Hannan,  A.  B.,  '80. 

William  R.  Harper,  President  of  the 
University  of  Chicago. 

Samuel  S.  Harris,  A.  B.,  '93. 

William  T.  Harris,  United  States 
Commissioner  of  Education. 

Walter  S.  Harsha,  A.  B.,  71. 

John  W.  Hart,  LL.  B.,  '96. 

Sophia  M.  Hartley,  M.  D.,  75. 

William  H.  Hawkes,  A.  B.,  '87. 

James  D.  Hawks,  Lit.,  '70. 

Rowland  Hazard,  A.  B.  (Brown), 
'49. 

George  Hempl,  A.  B.,  79. 

Mrs.  George  Hempl,  A.  B.,  '87. 

William  J.  Herdman,  Ph.  B.,  72. 

Percy  B.  Herr,  Ph.  B.,  '90. 

Shelley  E.  Higgins,  A.  B.,  '85. 

George  O.  Higley,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Burke  A.  Hinsdale,  A.  M.  (Wil- 
liams), 71. 

Mrs.  Burke  A.  Hinsdale. 

Mary  L.  Hinsdale,  A.  M.,  '90. 

Wilbert  B.  Hinsdale,  B.  S.  (Hiram 
Coll.),  75. 

Charles  W.  Hitchcock,  A.  M.,  '80. 

Nelville  S.  Hoff,  D.  D.  S.  (Ohio 
Dent.  Coll.),  76. 

Ellen  C.  Hogeboom,  B.  S.,  77. 

Charles  C.  Hopkins,  LL.  B.,  76. 

George  H.  Hopkins,  LL.  B.,  71. 

Kate  A.  Hopper,  B.  L.,  '94. 

Jesse  B.  Hornung,  A.  B.,  '93. 

Benjamin  R.  Hoyt,  M.  D.,  72. 

Gotthelf  C.  Huber,  M.  D.,  '87. 

Mrs.  Gotthelf  C.  Huber. 

Richard  Hudson,  A.  B.,  71. 

Isabella  H.  Hull,  A.  B.,  '84. 

Florence  Huson,  M.  D.,  '85. 

Harry  B.  Hutchius,  Ph.  B.,  71. 


Albert  P.  Jacobs,  A.  B.,  73. 

John  A.  Jameson,  A.  B.,  '91. 

Louis  H.  Jennings,  A.  B.,  72. 

Elias  F.  Johnson,  LL.  B.,  '90. 

Ronald  Kelly,  LL.  B.,  76. 

Francis  W.  Kelsey,  A.  B.  (Roches- 
ter), '80. 

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Kent. 

Hermann  Kiefer,  M.  D.  (Carls- 
ruhe),  '49,  Regent. 

Edward  D.  Kinne,  A.  B.,  '64. 

Otto  Kirchner,  A.  M.,  '94. 

Mrs.  Otto  Kirchner. 

Earle  J.  Knight,  A.  B.,  71. 

George  M.  Lane,  A.  B.,  '53. 

R.  Winifred  Lane,  A.  B.,  91. 

Oliver  H.  Lau,  M.  D.,  '82. 

John  M.  Lee,  M.  D.,  78. 

Louis  B.  Lee,  Lit.,  '88. 

David  Le  Favour,  B.  S.,  '95. 

James  A.  Le  Roy,  A.  B.,  '96. 

Oscar  Le  Seure,  M.  D.,  73. 

Mrs.  Oscar  Le  Seure. 

Mrs.  Francis  A.  Leslie,  A.  B.,  '86. 

Moritz  Levi,  A.  B.,  '87. 

William  A.  Lewis,  B.  S.,  '96. 

David  M.  Lichty,  M.  S.,  '91. 

Alfred  H.  Lloyd,  A.  B.  (Harvard), 
'86. 

Warren  P.  Lombard,  A.  B.  (Har- 
vard), 78. 

Henry  N.  Loud,  Lit.,  72. 

Elmer  A.  Lyman,  A.  B.,  '86. 

Charles  E.  McAlester,  B.  S.,  '61. 

Aaron  V.  McAlvay,  A.  B.,  '68. 

James  H.  McDonald,  A.  B.,  76. 

Mrs.  James  H.  McDonald. 

Ray  G.  MacDonald,  LL.  B.,  '96. 

Harrison  B.  McGraw,  A.  B.,  '91. 

Stanley  D.  McGraw,  Lit.,  '92. 

Theodore  A.  McGraw,  A.  B.,  '59. 

Harriet  E.  McKinstry,  Ph.  B.,  '96. 

Andrew  C.  McLaughlin,  A.  B.,  '82. 

Mrs.  Andrew  C.  McLaughlin. 


GUESTS  AT  THE  DINNER. 


91 


Joseph  R.  McLaughlin,  B.  S.,  '77. 

Lincoln  MacMillan,  Lit.,  '90. 

J.  Playfair  McMurrich,  A.  B.  (To- 
ronto), '79. 

James  McNamara,  LL.  B.,  '86. 

Mrs.  William  L.  Mahon,  Ph.B.,  '83. 

Edward  L.  Mark,  A.  B.,  '71. 

James  N.  Martin,  M.  D.,  '83. 

Mrs.  James  N.  Martin,  B.  S.  (Hills- 
dale),  '77. 

David  P.  Mayhew,  Ph.  B.,  '93. 

Fred  A.  Maynard,  A.  B.,  '74. 

Clarence  L.  Meader,  A.  B.,  '91. 

Mrs.  Clarence  L.  Meader,  Ph.  B., 
'92. 

Floyd  R.  Mechem,  A.  M.,  '94. 

Mrs.  Floyd  R.  Mechem. 

Edward  Menkin,  LL.  B.,  '96. 

Ernst  H.  Mensel,  Ph.  D.,  '96. 

William  Merrill,  Ph.  B.,  '71. 

Watson  B.  Millard,  A.  B.,  '71. 

Mary  L.  Miner,  Ph.  B.,  '82. 

Selby  A.  Moran,  B.  L.,  '88. 

John  D.  Muir,  Ph.  C.,  '84. 

Rev.    James   O.    Murray,   Dean  of 
Princeton  University. 

Charles  B.  Nancrede,  M.  D.  (Univ. 
of  Pa.),  '69. 

Mrs.  Charles  B.  Nancrede. 

Rev.  John  Neumann. 

Frederick  C.  Newcombe,  B.  S.,  '90. 

Walter  H.  Nichols,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Mrs.  Walter  H.  Nichols,  B.  S.,  '94. 

Frederick  G.  Novy,  B.  S.,  '86. 

Mrs.  Frederick  G.  Novy,  Lit.,  '93. 

Rev.  Frank  O'Brien,  A.  M.,  '94. 

Alfred  B.  Olsen,  M.  D.,  '94. 

Mama  R.  Osband,  A.  B.,  '95. 

Elmer  J.  Ottaway,  B.  L.,  '94. 

Arthur  S.  Parker,  Ph.  C.,  '79. 

Mrs.  Arthur  S.  Parker.,  Lit.,  '81. 

Walter  R.  Parker,  B.  S.,  '88. 

Myron  H.  Parmelee,  M.  D.  (Hahne- 
mannMed.  Coll.),  '70. 


Albert  H.  Pattengill,  A.  B.,  '68. 

Mrs.  Albert  H.  Pattengill,  Lit.,  '86. 

Henry  R.  Pattengill,  B.  S.,  '74. 

George  W.  Patterson,  A.  B.  (Yale), 
'84. 

Mrs.  George  W.  Patterson,  A.  B.,  '90. 

Isaac  N.  Payne,  A.  B.,  '81. 

Alvick  A.  Pearson,  B.  L.,  '94. 

Edward  W.  Pendleton,  A.  B.,  '72. 

Walter  S.  Perry,  A.  B.,  '61. 

William  H.  Pettee,  A.  B.  (Har- 
vard), '61. 

Mrs.  William  H.  Pettee. 

Elihu  B.  Pond. 

Irving  K.  Pond,  C.  E.,  '79. 

Hoyt  Post,  A.  B.,  '61. 

James  A.  Post,  B.  S.,  '61. 

Albert  B.  Prescott,  M.  D.,  '64. 

Mrs.  Albert  B.  Prescott. 

William  E.  Quinby,  A.  B.,  '58. 

Alexander  B.  Raymond,  C.  E.,  '71. 

Jacob  E.  Reighard,  Ph.  B.,  '82. 

Mrs.  Jacob  E.  Reighard,  Lit.,  '83. 

Joseph  Ripley,  C.  E.,  '76. 

Henry  W.  Rogers,  A.  B.,  '74. 

John  C.  Rolfe,  A.  B.  (Harvard),  '80. 

Charles  A.  Rust,  B.  S.,  '71. 

Horton  C.  Ryan,  B.  L.,  '93. 

Fannie  E.  Sabin,  Ph.  B.,  '95. 

Robert  L.  Sackett,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Charles  E.  St.  John,  Ph.  D.  (Har- 
vard), '96. 

Edmond  L.  Sanderson,  A.  B.,  '92. 

David  A.  Sawdey,  Ph.  B.,  '76. 

John  G.  Schurtz,  A.  M.,  '81. 

Fred.  N.  Scott,  A.  B.,  '84. 

Mrs.  Fred.  N.  Scott,  A.  B.,  '84. 

Francis  M.  Sessions,  Ph.  B.,  '88. 

Juliette  Sessions,  Ph.  B.,  '93. 

John  Q.  A.  Sessions,  A.  B.,  '56. 

George  B.  Sheehy,  A.  B.,  '85. 

Clarence  C.  Sherrard,  Ph.  C.,  '90. 

Harry  G.  Sherrard,  A.  B.,  '82. 

Mrs.  Harry  G.  Sherrard. 


92        PRESIDENT  ANGELL'S  QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 


Edwin  S.  Sherrill,  A.  B.,  '80. 

Herbert  M.  Slauson,  Ph.  B.,  '77. 

EUiott  T.  Slocum,  A.  M.,  '69. 

Frank  H.  Smith,  B.  S.,  '93. 

Frederic  L.  Smith,  Ph.  B.,  '90. 

Walter  O.  Smith,  Lit.,  '93. 

J.  L.  Snyder,  President  of  Michigan 
Agricultural  College. 

Mrs.  J.  L.  Snyder. 

Hiram  A.  Sober,  A.  B.,  '86. 

Harrison  Soule. 

Charles  W.  Southworth,  A.  B.,  '93. 

Volney  M.  Spalding,  A.  B.,  '73. 

Mrs.  Volney  M.  Spalding,  B.  S.  '85. 

Willard  G.  Sperry,  A.  B.  (Yale), 
'69,  President  of  Olivet  College. 

Albert  A.  Stanley,  A.  M.,  '90. 

Mrs.  Albert  A.  Stanley. 

Alviso  B.  Stevens,  Ph.  C.,  '75. 

Merari  B.  Stevens,  M.  D.,  '69. 

Clarence  G.  Stone,  Ph.  C.,  '77. 

Katharine  E.  Simmer,  Ph.  B.,  '91. 

Jonathan  Taft,  D.  D.  S.  (Ohio 
Dent.  Coll.),  '50. 

Rev.  Henry  Tatlock,  A.  B.  (Wil- 
liams), '71. 

Fred  M.  Taylor,  Ph.  D.,  '88. 

Andrew  Ten  Brook,  A.  B.  (Col- 
gate), '39. 

Bradley  M.  Thompson,  B.  S.,  '58. 

Mrs.  Bradley  M.  Thompson. 

Frank  B.  Tibbals,  M.  D.,  '91. 

Russell  F.  Tinkham,  A.  B.,  '72. 

Robert  K.  Tripp,  A.  B.,  '61. 

Thomas  C.  Trueblood,  A.  M.  (Earl- 
ham),  '88. 

Mrs.  Charles  K.  Turner,  A.  B.,  '72. 

Henry  M.  Utley,  A.  B.,  '61. 

Raymond  E.  Van  Syckle,  B.  S.,  '91. 

Victor  C.  Vaughan,  M.  S.,  '75. 


Mrs.  Victor  C.  Vaughan. 
Lillie  M.  Volland,  B.  L.,  '96. 
Ernst  Voss,  Ph.  D.  (Leipzig),  '95. 
James  H.  Wade. 
George  Wagner,  Ph.  C.,  '93 
Byron  S.  Waite,  B.  L.,  '80. 
Mrs.  Henry  C.  Waldron. 
Bryant  Walker,  A.  B.,  '76. 
Mrs.  Charles  H.  Walker,  Ph.  B.,  '77. 
Edward  L.  Walter,  A.  B.,  '68. 
Edward  D.  Warner,  B.  L.,  '91. 
John   A.  Watling,  D.  D.  S.  (Ohio 

Dent.  Coll.),  '60. 
Mrs.  John  A.  Watling. 
William  D.  Washburn,  A.  B.,  '79. 
Mrs.  William  D.  Washburn. 
Elmer  R.  Webster,  A.  B.,  '79. 
William  W.  Wedemeyer,  B.  L.,  '94. 
Francis  H.  Wessels,  A.  B.,  '96. 
Charles   R.  Whitman,  A.  B.,  '70, 

Ex-Regent. 
Horace  L.   Wilgus,  B.   S.   (Ohio 

State  Univ.),  '82. 
George  Willard,  Ex-Regent. 
Mrs.  George  Willard. 
M.  Alice  Williams,  A.  B.,  '76. 
Max  Winkler,   A.   B.  (Harvard), 

'89. 
Justin  Winsor,  A.  B.   (Harvard), 

'53. 

Dean  C.  Worcester,  A.  B.,  '89. 
Mrs.    Dean    C.    Worcester,    Lit., 

'92. 
G.  Frederick  Wright,  A.  B.  (Ober- 

lin),  '59. 

Robert  M.  Wright,  A.  B.,  '71. 
Rev.  Thomas  W.  Young. 
Robert  Young,  LL.  B.,  '83. 
Alexander    Ziwet,   C.    E.    (Carls- 

ruhe),  '80. 


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